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Quotes about children and the wonder they bring. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest children quotes ever written — from Native American Proverb, Khalil Gibran, Cicero and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.

— Native American Proverb

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

— Khalil Gibran

Being a grandmother is our last chance to act like a kid without being accused of being immature.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

— Cicero

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild, with a faery, hand in hand.

— W. B. Yeats

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

— Dr. Seuss

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

— Anne Frank

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

— Rabindranath Tagore

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star, and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

— Dr. Seuss

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Grandmothers hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

— Virgil

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

— Chinese Proverb

A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous.

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

— African Proverb

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

— Victor Hugo

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

— Native American Proverb

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

A child is a child of everyone.

— African Proverb

The child is father of the man.

— William Wordsworth

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Grandmothers sprinkle stardust over children's lives.

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