Children Quotes

A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Paulo Coelho

Human beings are the only creatures who allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Garrison Keillor

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Oscar Wilde

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Heraclitus

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.

Christopher Paolini

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

Doug Larson

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fjodor Mihajlovics Dosztojevszkij

Inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Mijamoto Sigeru

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

Oscar Wilde

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Margaret Atwood

Like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

Children were pretty things at three years old; but began to be great plagues at six, and were quite intolerable at ten.

Maria Edgeworth