15,393 Quotes About Children

…We zap ‘em! We snap ‘em! We think we’re pretty slick. We change things, re-arrange things. Quicker than quick!

…she had an amazing dream: she climbed into her mouth – and swallowed herself!

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.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL.'What if she cuts herself?'THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.