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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

Christian Morgenstern

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Victor Hugo

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Victor Hugo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Miguel de Unamuno

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Mark Twain

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Victor Hugo

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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