Logo - Feel The Words

Children Quotes

Most Famous Children Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best children quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Children Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Quotes by Charles Reade

I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.

Quotes by Charles Saatchi

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want...

Quotes by Charles M. Blow

I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.

Quotes by Charles Murray

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

Quotes by Charles Lamb

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Quotes by Charles Lamb

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Quotes by Charles Ives

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Quotes by Charles Hamilton Houston

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Quotes by Charles de Lint

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four...

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Quotes by Charles Bronson

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Quotes by Charles Buxton

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

Quotes by Charles C. Mann

Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.

Quotes by Charles C. Mann

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at...

Quotes by Charles Colson

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Quotes by Charles Darwin

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Quotes by Charles Bass

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of quotes about children are on this page?
A mix - a filmmaker recalling how shocked audiences reacted to a controversial movie by grabbing their children and leaving the room, a statement about entertainers not being responsible for teaching children life lessons, thoughts on adult responsibility toward children and parents, and a personal note about raising children while working in law.
Is there a quote about parenting responsibility?
Yes, one quote describes being a grownup as assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - as it puts it - "here's the big curve" - for your parents too. For more on family roles, see the Family page.
Is there a quote about entertainment and children?
Yes, one quote argues that entertainers exist to entertain, not "to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself" - placing that responsibility squarely on parents. Browse the Father page for more on that theme.
Is there a personal story here about raising children while working?
Yes, one quote comes from someone in private law practice in New York City, describing raising children together with their husband while balancing that career.
Is there a quote about a controversial reaction involving children?
Yes - one quote recalls being "anathema in polite society" after making the film 'Last House,' with people reportedly grabbing their children and leaving the room in reaction. For more on faith and family values connected to children, see the Prayers page, or the Believe page.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Children Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.