Quotes About Children
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
abolitionist and statesman
Children make you want to start life over.
Muhammad Ali
boxer
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political and spiritual leader
It’s the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
Roman Catholic nun
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
Former First Lady of the United States
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
cultural anthropologist
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
dancer and artist
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
Evangelical Christian pastor
Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Haim Ginott
child psychologist
Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck
American humorist
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Ray L. Wilbur
third president of Stanford University
Children are our most valuable resource.
Herbert Hoover
31st President of the United States
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlin
journalist and author
If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!
Dwight L. Moody
evangelist
I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!
David Vitter
U.S. senator