Top 40 Quotes About Children (2024 Update)

1. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope

2. “Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”

— Victor Hugo

3. “The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Quotes About Heart

4. “It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.”

— Sigmund Freud

5. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

— Robert Fulghum

Also featured in: Marriage Quotes

6. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

7. “I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”

— Whitney Houston

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Quotes About Believing

8. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

9. “We are the world, we are the children...”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Quotes About the World

10. “I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.”

— Stephen Hawking

11. “I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Joy Quotes

12. “Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Real Quotes, Quotes About Growing Up

13. “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Also featured in: Quotes About Hope

14. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Quotes About Memories

15. “Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.”

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes

16. “In every adult there lurks a child – an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.”

— C.G. Jung

17. “It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Quotes About Kids

18. “To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

— Brandon Sanderson

19. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes

20. “We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Health Quotes

21. “My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Mind Quotes

22. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes

23. “That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Quotes About Growing Up

24. “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Family Quotes

25. “I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

26. “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

— Marie Curie

27. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

— Dale Evans

Also featured in: Marriage Quotes, Christmas Quotes

28. “All of our dreams can come true.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

29. “A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”

— Pablo Neruda

30. “On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

31. “Beauty is not caused. It is.”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Beauty Quotes

32. “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Greatness Quotes

33. “Wisdom is justified of her children.”

— Matthew 11:19

34. “I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Also featured in: Heaven Quotes, Quotes About the Sea

35. “God is faithful even when his children are not.”

— Max Lucado

36. “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”

— Erma Bombeck

Also featured in: Spirituality Quotes, Christmas Quotes

37. “Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.”

— Lenora Mattingly Weber

Also featured in: Christmas Quotes, Quotes About Heart

38. “Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

39. “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

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes

40. “I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.”

— Beverly Cleary