Children Quotes

I’m sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

Know when to lie to your kids.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Our freedom is threatened every time one of our young people is killed by another child, every time a person gets stopped and beaten by the police because of the color of their skin.

Am I killing the kid in me, by strangling my curiosity?

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.