Top 100 Quotes About Children (2025 Update)
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51. “Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.”

— Maria Montessori

52. “Children see magic because they look for it.”

— Christopher Moore

53. “If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

— Bruce Barton

54. “Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don’t make mistakes.”

— Max Lucado

55. “Children can change the world.”

— Jane Goodall

56. “The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”

— Malcolm X

57. “I like you just the way you are.”

— Fred Rogers

58. “If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

59. “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

— Tomie dePaola

60. “Young people need models, not critics.”

— John Wooden

61. “Within the child lies the fate of the future.”

— Maria Montessori

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Robert Fulghum

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

— Maria Montessori

67. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

69. “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

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

— Marianne Williamson

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Og Mandino

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

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

76. “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

77. “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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Marie Curie

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

— Dale Evans

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

— Walt Disney

89. “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

90. “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

91. “Beauty is not caused. It is.”

— Emily Dickinson

92. “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

93. “Wisdom is justified of her children.”

— Matthew 11:19

94. “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

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

— Max Lucado

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

— Erma Bombeck

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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