15,393 Quotes About Children

For Every Child We Teach To Cherish Learning, A Universe Is Born.

Like Unsworth, many of us have lost something since our childhood reading days. To put it simply, we’ve lost the “lostness”—the sheer abandonment children can experience when they give themselves wholeheartedly to their imagination. As we grow older, perhaps we become too distracted and responsible to do this. But a growing awareness of self (perhaps primarily) also discourages this lostness.

The mind of an adult begins in the imagination of a child.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

Children treat things as if money grew on trees. Adults treat the environment as if trees grew from money.

Children must have absolute freedom, I insist on that. No rules, no demands, no brainwashing, no punishment.

Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?

A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her body serves as a medicine cabinet for her infant. From her milk she can nourish and heal her own child from a variety of ailments. And though women come in a wide assortment as vast as the many different types of flowers and birds, she is to reflect divinity in her essence, care and wisdom. God created a woman's heart to be a river of love, not to become a killing machine.