Inspirational Quotes About Children

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Michael Jackson 1958-2009
American singer-songwriter & dancer
Children show me in their playful smiles the Divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

I would like to say to all adults: so many things seem to matter to us. Sometimes we think we are important, we are not important. Nothing is more important that our kids.

In my family we love children. If a baby or a child comes in, we all want to hug the child or pick him up. That’s how my brothers and sisters are. I can’t understand why people don’t honour children, why they push them aside like they are nothing. That’s what tomorrow becomes.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Michael Jackson 1958-2009
American singer-songwriter & dancer
Nothing is more important than our children. They are the future. They can heal the world. It is our obligation to be there for them.

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that.

When I see children, I see the face of God.

P. D. James 1920-2014
English novelist & life peer
What a child doesn’t receive, he can seldom later give.

Randell Jarrell 1914-1965
American poet, essayist & novelist
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Lady Bird Johnson 1912-2007
First Lady of United States
Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
English writer, poet & playwright
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they ever find?

Angelina Jolie 1975
American actress & filmmaker
Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.

Franklin P. Jones 1908-1980
American journalist & humorist
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Juvenal 55-127
Roman poet
Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal 55-127
Roman poet
The greatest respect is owed to a child.

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Amit Kalantri 1988
Indian author
No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

Bel Kaufman 1911-2014
American teacher & author
Children are the true connoisseurs, what’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Lionel Kaufman
Children are a great comfort in your old age.

Montague Keen 1925-2004
English journalist, author & researcher
The greatest gift you can give your children is.. Your love and your time.

John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
35th President of United States
Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Children are the worlds most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

John F. Kennedy 1917-1963
35th President of United States
Every child came equipped with an imagination and a box of crayons. We adults need to provide light and space, not walls and restrictions.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr 1954
American politician, environmental lawyer & health activist
We need to love our children more than we hate each other.

Miranda Kerr 1983
Australian model
There are no words that could ever describe the happiness and the joy that you feel when you see your son smile in the morning. I just feel so lucky.

Jay Kesler 1935
Pastor & author
Young people need something stable to hang onto - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.

Ellen Key 1849-1926
Swedish writer on family life, ethics & education
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from the roses.

Nicole Kidman 1967
Australian-American actress & producer
I love acting.. But it’s much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

Knights of Pythagoras
Community based mentoring organization
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

L. R. Knost
Author & child development researcher
A lifestyle of reading puts the vast knowledge of the ages into the hands of our children. Exchanging the life-long riches of a love of reading for the temporary value of facts gleaned from required reading lists is a paltry deal, indeed. Encouraging reading, yes but let their hearts, their interests, their imaginations choose their reading material. Whatever momentary facts they need for the next test or quiz can be found just as easily on Google. A passion for reading can only be found in the heart of the child.

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.

It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not to join their chao

Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986
Indian philosopher, writer & spiritual figure
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

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Jess Lair 1927-2000
American educator & author
Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded.

Jess Lair 1927-2000
American educator & author
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Dalai Lama 1935
14th Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
Give the ones you love.. Wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

It is vital that when educating children’s brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Dalai Lama 1935
14th Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
The time has come to take concrete steps to bring about a real transformation in the ways we educate our future generations. We need to combine both an education of the mind with an education of the heart.

Charles Lamb 1775-1834
English essayist & poet
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Ann Landers
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

Vicki Lansky 1942-2017
American author & publisher
You will always be your child’s favourite toy.

Penelope Leach 1937
British psychologist & author
Loving a child is a circular business.. The more you give, the more you get, the more you get, the more you give.

Kelly Lebrock 1960
American-English actress & model
Success for me; is to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Bruce Lee 1940-1973
Hong Kong-American martial artist & actor
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.

Pam Leo
Parent/childbirth educator & author
Children communicate their emotional hurts and needs through their behaviour. When we learn to recognize children’s acting-out behaviour as a communication of an unmet need, we can respond to children’s needs instead of react to their behaviour.

Children need at least one person in their life who thinks the sun rises and sets on them, who delights in their existence and loves them unconditionally.

Either we spend time meeting children’s emotional needs by filling their cup with love, or we spend time dealing with behaviours caused from their unmet needs. Either way, we spend the time.

How we treat the child, the child will treat the worl

In any interaction with a child, will my words or actions strengthen or weaken our connection?

It is difficult for children to fall asleep when they are emotionally hungry as it is to fall asleep when they are physically hungry. The biggest reason children resist going to bed is that this is their last chance of the day for connection.

Let’s raise children who won’t have to recover from their childhood.

Meeting children’s emotional need for connection by filling their love cup is as important as meeting their physical need for food.

Respect is the foundation of connection. We teach children respect by modeling respect. We model respect by treating children with the same respect we expect.

The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents.

Until we can give our children a better world, we’ll have to give our world more resilient children.

We teach children what to believe about themselves through how we treat them. Filling their love cup builds their self-esteem and self-worth and creates connection.

You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better.

Giacomo Leopardi 1798-1837
Italian philosopher, poet & essayist
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Alan Jay Lerner 1918-1986
American lyricist & librettist
Stay close to the young.. And a little rubs off.

Amy Leslie

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781
German philosopher & writer
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

Sam Levenson 1911-1980
American humorist, writer & television host
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate is called a grandparent.

C. S. Lewis 1898-1963
British author & Anglican lay theologian
Children are not a distraction from more important work..
They are the most important work.

Ming Li
All children who are held and loved will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world.. Nothing more need be done.

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
American 16th President of United States
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Bruce H. Lipton 1944
American cell biologist, lecturer & author
The most important thing that we need to understand as parents is that everything you say, everything you do, for the first seven years of that child’s life is being recorded and becoming their behaviour.

Robert Llewelyn 1956
British actor, comedian, presenter & writer
Mother to six year old: “Jane, what are you doing?” “I’m drawing God.” “But darling, nobody knows what God looks like.” “No mummy, they don’t yet, but they will when they’ve seem my drawing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
American poet & educator
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Diane Loomans 1955
Author, poet & speaker

If I had my child to raise over again...
I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.
I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less, and know to care more.
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.
I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.
I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I’d teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.
It matters not whether my child is big or small,
from this day forth, I’ll cherish it all.

Richard Louv 1949
American author & journalist
Teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing.

James Russell Lowell 1819-1891
American poet, editor & diplomat
Children are God’s apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love and hope and peace.

Luther Standing Bear
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitantly set that child’s feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. He knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence.

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Harvey MacKay 1932
American businessman, author & columnist
We start out as pretty creative beings.. Children let their imaginations take them to places they’ve never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

Mae Maloo
Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.

William Martin
How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.

Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You only have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born, they will believe it easily.

Olga Masters 1919-1986
Australian writer, journalist & novelist
These are my poems. These are my stories. (children)

Mary McBride

What a difference it makes to come home to a child.

Mignon McLaughlin 1913-1983
American journalist & author
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Adam McLeod
Naturopathic doctor & author
As children we see life only in the present moment. Children feel a certain way and react intuitively in the here and now. They have not yet developed an analytical process which interferes with intuition.

Margaret Mead 1901-1978
American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Barbara F. Meltz
Columnist for The Boston Globe
Whether your child is three or thirteen, don’t rush in to rescue him until you know he’s done all he can to rescue himself.

Bradley Millar
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar, is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Rebecca Miller
That’s one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who’ve had children.

A. A. Milne 1882-1956
English writer & poet
If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together there is something you must always remember.. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. Even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.

John Milton 1608-1674
English poet & historian
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
American actress & model
All little girls should be told they are pretty.

Thomas S. Monson 1927-2018
American LDS Church leader & author
Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

Maria Montessori 1870-1952
Italian physician & educator
A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

One of the greatest problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Maria Montessori 1870-1952
Italian physician & educator
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

Christopher Moore

Children see magic because they look for it.

Mourning Dove (Christal Quintasket)
Native American of Salish tribe
Children were encouraged to develop a strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success. When a child carried water for the home, an elder would give compliments, pretending to taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl. The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a sapling.

Movie – A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
A child thinks that life is really beautiful and that it will become even more beautiful. It is the duty of society to fulfil that expectation.

Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.

Dear children and youth, please remember always that: you are your parents’ main contribution to evolution and further human ascent; you are their immorality; you are their greatest work of art and joy; you will be their last thought and pride at their moment of death. You must think of the chain of life from which you come and will continue on this miraculous planet in the vast solar system. Your parents are sacred and so are you.

I love all my children but with different loves each adapted to the child’s particular nature. Thus is God’s love for all His children on Earth.

I wish the world would cover itself again with fruit trees for the happiness of little children. Every child on Earth should have the pleasure of touching and picking live fruits from a tree.

If we only knew what children think and feel about life, nature, people and the world into which they are born. It would give us many clues about the meaning of life and happiness.

It is the natural and perennial role of parents to teach, to warn, to protect, to guide, to help, to prepare, to ‘raise’ their children. Children, for their part, have their own predispositions, nature, dreams and likings. The result will be blending of the two, of the past, the present and the future. And thus humanity proceeds on its evolutionary path, epitomized and molded in each of the Earth’s hundreds of millions of families. The family is the first and greatest school of love, peace and happiness on Earth. As for all other human groups, there should be no confrontation, no conflict, no breakage of the family, only give and take, understanding, love and cooperation. For these are the ways of ascent of humanity.

Love must become the subject of serious scientific study. Loved children are healthier, happier, more peaceful children. Loved husbands have seldom heart attacks. Loved plants grow better. Loved animals are not vicious. Loved nations do not wage war. A humanity of loving people will be a peaceful humanity. To promote love means therefore to promote peace. Yes, let us have a love logy, a science of love, to start with a World University of Love.

Observe your children closely: they have often fundamental approaches and answers to the mysteries of life which we have lost as adults.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations
The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

Was I more myself when I was a child? I could burst with joy and also cry. I was fascinated by everything. I fell asleep, exhausted by the wonders of life.

We have entered an age of such complexity that we are now turning to children and youth for answers on many issues.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

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Native American
Children are a gift from the heavens.

The ones that matter most are the children. They are true human beings.

Treat the Earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors
We borrow it from our children.

Native American – Mohawk

Remember that your children are not your own, but are lent to you by the Creator.

Jason Nelson 1974
American gospel singer-songwriter & pastor
I love being around children. I’m deeply moved and inspired by their innocence. They have fresher, clearer eyes to see the world with unconditional love because of the natural spirituality they were born with.

Kitaro Nishida 1870-1945
Japanese moral philosopher & religious scholar
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

J. L. Nixon
It doesn’t take long to learn that it is the simple things children love best; and their joy brings these experiences into the importance they truly deserve. Sharing laughter and wonder and fun with children, seeing the world through their eyes, helps me.

Dorothy Nolte 1924-2005
American writer & family counselor

Children learn what they life.
If a child lives with criticism..
He learns to condemn.
If he lives with hostility..
He learns to fight.
If he lives with ridicule..
He learns to be shy.
If he lives with shame..
He learns to be guilty.

If he lives with tolerance..
He learns confidence.
If he lives with praise..
He learns to appreciate.
If he lives with fairness..
He learns about justice.

Christiane Northrup 1949
American physician & author
The bond between mother and child is the most intimate one in human experience. Love, welcome, and receptivity at the beginning of life greatly enhance a child’s health and happiness throughout her lifetime.

Caroline Norton 1808-1877
English social reformer & author
A child’s eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought, what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet our own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender. The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value.

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Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman) 1858-1939
Native American of Santee Dakota tribe
It is our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. Its appeal is to the material part, and if allowed its way, it will in time disturb one’s spiritual balance. Therefore, children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Peggy O’Mara
Publisher, editor & owner of Mothering Magazine
The way we talk to children, becomes their inner voice.

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Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
French chemist, pharmacist & microbiologist
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments..
Tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Jean Piaget 1896-1980
Swiss psychologist
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Spanish artist
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Josef Pieper 1904-1997
German Catholic philosopher & author
Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child’s face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment ‘seen’ that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God.

Rita Pierson 1951-2013
American teacher & speaker
Every child needs a champion - an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.

Pink 1979
American singer-songwriter
You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically, but you can’t possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

Frank Pittman 1953-2012
American psychiatrist & author
The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

Plato 429BC-347BC
Ancient Greek philosopher
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plutarch 46-120
Greek philosopher, historian & priest
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Linda Poindexter
Writer, humorist & author of quotes
We are like lighthouses to our children.. Beacons showing them the way. And when our light goes out, theirs will be at its brightest.. Ready to take over for us.

Proverb
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

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Francois Rabelais 1494-1553
French writer
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Ruth E. Renkel

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Ken Robinson 1950-2020
English author, speaker & advisor on education
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don’t be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they’re suffering from childhood.

John Roger
Explain to your kids that tests at school do not record their failure. Tests show areas where they can learn and grow, and point up their strengths. They are a reference point to know how they are doing, and to show them where to do more work.

Will Rogers Jr 1911-1993
American politician, writer & newspaper publisher
His heritage to his children wasn’t words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
American First lady of United States
I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Don Miguel Ruiz 1952
Mexican author & spiritual guide
Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don’t even think about the opinions of others.

John Ruskin 1819-1900
English writer, philosopher & polymath
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944
French writer, poet & journalist
Growing up is not the problem, forgetting is.

Kate Samperi 1929-2020
Agony aunt & author
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory.. Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

Susan Sarandon 1946
American actress
Children re-invent your world for you.

Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805
German playwright, poet & philosopher
A deep meaning often lies in the play of a child.,

Laura Schlessinger 1947
American talk radio host & author
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Angela Schwindt
While we try to teach our children all about life..
Our children teach us what life is all about.

Chief Seattle 1780-1866
Native American Chief of Duwamish & Suquamish tribes
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the Earth is our mother? What befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. This we know: the Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) 1904-1991
American children’s author & cartoonist
Adults are just outdated children.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Irish playwright & critic
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Mateo Sol
Psychospiritual teacher & author
Empath children are highly influenced by the energy of the household, including the energy of you as a parent. This means that your child will be perceptive of your moods and will feel everything that you feel, regardless of whether you want them to or not.

Sophocles 496BC-406BC
Ancient Greek tragedian
Children are the anchors that hold the mother to life.

Robert Southey 1774-1843
English poet
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Muriel Spark 1918-2006
Scottish novelist, poet & essayist
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Wes Stafford 1949
Former president/CEO of Compassion International & author
Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925
Austrian scientist, philosopher & social reformer
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

Meiji Stewart
Author

Children Are…
Amazing, acknowledge them
Believable, trust them
Childlike, allow them
Divine, honour them
Energetic, nourish them
Fallible, embrace them
Gifts, treasure them
Here now, be with them
Innocent, delight with them
Joyful, appreciate them
Kindhearted, learn from them
Lovable, cherish them
Magical, fly with them
Noble, esteem them
Open minded, respect them
Precious, value them
Questioners, encourage them
Resourceful, support them
Spontaneous, enjoy them
Talented, believe in them
Unique, affirm them
Vulnerable, protect them
Whole, recognize them
Xtraspecial, celebrate them
Yearning, notice them
Zany, laugh with them

Walt Streightiff
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.. There are seven million.

Algernon Swinburne 1837-1909
English poet, playwright & novelist
Where children are not, Heaven is not.

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Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941
Indian poet, writer, composer & philosopher
Every child comes with a message.. That God is not yet discouraged by man.

William D. Tammeus
American journalist & faith coloumnist
You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents wave back.

Ann Van Tassells
Children are like sponges; they absorb all your strength and leave you limp..
But give them a squeeze and you get it all back.

Stacia Tauscher
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

If you ask children in the west where’s God, they’d point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
American naturalist, essayist & poet
Kindness to children. Love for children. Goodness to children…these are the only investments that never fail.

Eckhart Tolle 1948
German teacher & author
If you have young children, give them help, guidance, and protection to the best of your ability, but even more important, give them space - space to be.

Donald Trump 1946
American businessman & 45th-47th President of United States
The best thing I’ve done? Well, I’ve created four beautiful children.

Desmond Tutu 1931-2021
South African Anglican bishop & human rights activist
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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Brenda Ueland 1891-1985
American journalist & editor
All children have creative power.

Peter Ustinov 1921-2004
English actor, director & writer
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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Krissy Venosdale
Learning is their journey. Let them navigate. Push them to explore. Watch them discover. Encourage their questions. Allow them to struggle. Support their thinking. Let them fly.

Thomas R. Verny 1936
Clinical psychiatrist & author
From the journey down the birth canal to afternoons at the park, a child will register every experience in the circuitry of his or her brain. Whenever a mother strokes her baby, whenever a father plays with his daughter or son, those physiological acts will be instantly converted to neuro-hormonal processes that transform the body and wire the brain of the child.

Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

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Mark Wahlberg 1971
American actor
There’s nothing like seeing the smile on my kid’s faces. Laughing together. Playing. It’s the best.

Alice Walker 1944
American novelist, writer & social activist
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Catherine M. Wallace 1950
American author
Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.

Neale Donald Walsch 1943
American author

See the world with the innocence of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.

Neale Donald Walsch 1943
American author
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place of thing, and that true happiness is found within.

Neale Donald Walsch 1943
American author
When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.

Booker T. Washington 1856-1915
American educator, author & orator
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Rosemary Wells 1943
American writer & illustrator of children’s books
Of all my childhood memories, days spent in my grandparents house are the happiest.

Paul Wellstone 1944-2002
American politician & author
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

The kind of goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

John Whitehead

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Ray Lyman Wilbur 1875-1949
American politician & physician
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Larry Wilde 1928-2023
American actor, comedian & author
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall,

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
Irish poet & playwright
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Azelene Williams
Social worker & counsellor
The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands, the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us, those dreams are realized naturally. For this is the miracle of life.

Marianne Williamson 1952
American author, speaker & political activist
Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All things that could go wrong.’

Kate Winslet 1975
English actress
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else disappears.

William Wordsworth 1770-1850
English poet
The child is the father of the man.

Lois Wyse 1926-2007
American advertising executive, author & columnist
A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

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Malala Yousafzai 1997
Pakistani education activist
One child, one teacher, one pen and one book, can change the world.

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Zig Ziglar 1926-2012
American author & motivational speaker
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

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