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Quotes about children that will remind how precious and special these little ones are in our life.

Top Children Quotes To Warm Your Heart

For most people, some of the most cherished memories are time spent with children. Even pictures of unknown little children surfacing on one's social media feed fills one's heart with joy in this day of technology. Children enter the world as bundles of joy for their parents and family and grow up to determine the future of nations. As such, children are duly considered to be the greatest wealth not only for their parents, but for entire nations as well. This is why some advocate treating children as little adults and focusing on nurturing their innate qualities. Interestingly, parenting one's children is one of the few life experiences that are common between people from different economic spectrums. It is no surprise that most prominent people from different fields have something interesting to say about children. Here are some famous quotes that are bound to inspire and enlighten you.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C. S. Lewis
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Dr. Seuss
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

Gustave Flaubert
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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

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

James Baldwin
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Bram Stoker
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!

Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

Ogden Nash
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.

The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.

August Wilson
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Maya Angelou
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Khaled Hosseini
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

J. K. Rowling
Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Heraclitus
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle
There is no sinner like a young saint.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Aphra Behn
The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Mark Twain
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, 
And that's what parents were created for.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Khaled Hosseini
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Marianne Williamson
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Harper Lee
There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

There is absolutely no evidence that it is harmful to children if their mother's health, well-being and autonomy and control of her own destiny is maximized by work outside the home.

Betty Friedan
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Karl Lagerfeld
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Socrates