Quotes About Children

"Adults are just outdated children."
  — Dr. Seuss

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
  — Nelson Mandela

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
  — Lady Bird Johnson

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
  — Margaret Mead

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
  — Stacia Tauscher

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."
  — Jess Lair

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
  — Charles R. Swindoll

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
  — Frederick Douglass

"Children need models rather than critics."
  — Joseph Joubert

"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."
  — Anonymous

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

"Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression."
  — Haim Ginott

"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained."
  — Lyman Abbott

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."
  — Henry Ward Beecher