15,393 Quotes About Children

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you.

Mother Earth is on her way to the gas chamber with all of her children.

If we reward our children for doing the right things, or discipline for intentionally doing the wrong things, then we might be viewed as doing the right thing. On the other hand, we (or parents) might not fully grasp the right thing—as the “right thing” becomes convoluted in the mix of the time and period, the latest “grand experiment”, and other influences of parenthood and childrearing.

The best way to change the destiny of the world is to carry children into the world of wisdom!

We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up things.

So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.

O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree.