We’ve collected seventeen of the best quotes about kids for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!
“Kids are the audience I know best.”
— Rick Riordan
“The best part about having children is being able to point at them and proudly proclaim, ‘Hey, I made those.'”
— Jarod Kintz
“The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.”
— Gene Simmons
“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift.”
— Stephen King
“When you can see kids smiling, that’s one of the best things. That’s why I did ‘Narnia.'”
— James McAvoy
“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
“Kids’ views are often just as valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that.”
— Morley Safer
“Actors are the best and the worst of people. They’re like kids. When they’re good, they’re very very good. When they’re bad they’re very very naughty.”
— Kenneth Branagh
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
— Mark Twain
“Kids don’t know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them.”
— Maurice Sendak
“I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don’t look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.”
— Corin Nemec
“Children make you want to start life over.”
— Muhammad Ali