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"Adults are just outdated children."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
— 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