This collection holds 25,144 children quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Emily Dickinson, Joseph Joubert and Erma Bombeck.

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Beauty is not caused. It is. - Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Ask the young. They know everything. - Joseph Joubert

Ask the young. They know everything.

Never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. - Mignon Mclaughlin

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have ... - Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our ... - Chief Seattle

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children ... - Mahatma Gandhi

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart ... - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - ... - Kailash Satyarthi

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force ... - Laurence J. Peter

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my ... - Barbara Bush

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once ... - Angelus Silesius

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; ... - Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work ... - Bruce Mau

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys ... - Janet Gonzalez-Mena

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, ... - Jane Goodall

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think ... - Kitaro Nishida

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around ... - Norman Vincent Peale

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them ... - Whitney Houston

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany ... - Matthew Arnold

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was ... - Ted Harrison

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and ... - David Suzuki

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. ... - Rita Rudner

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is ... - George Orwell

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an ... - Temple Grandin

If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a ... - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, ... - Dag Hammarskjold

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I ... - Anne Parillaud

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We ... - Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal ... - Brian Tracy

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Barnes are blessings.

Children are geniuses.

I played like a child!

I like Destiny's Child.

No child's behind left.

I was a very shy child.

Truth is child of Time.

You are a child of God.

I like children - fried.

Burnt child fire dredth.

Cry you little monsters!

All Children are Artists

I was a disruptive child.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Be gentle with the young.

Children love me, dammit!

I was a precocious child.

Seriousness is a disease.

Children are so precious.

I have fabulous children.

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