Famous Children Quotes



The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.

Henry David Thoreau

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.

Euripides

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Claude Debussy

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

Christian Morgenstern

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child

William Shakespeare

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

A cat's playful spirit is a reminder to find joy in the simplest of things and embrace our inner child.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Khalil Gibran

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Sigmund Freud

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Victor Hugo

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Orison Swett Marden

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

Emma Goldman

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Louis Pasteur

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Mark Twain

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

Mark Twain

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George

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