Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world. Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby.

A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

All children have creative power.

Children really brighten up a household – they never turn the lights off.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

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

Children aren’t dogs; adults aren’t gods.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

When I approach a child He inspires in me two sentiments: Tenderness for what he is, And respect for what he may become.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects.

Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

Children are poor men's riches.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Children need models more than they need critics.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.