Children's Books Quotes:

Children's books are by nature partisan.

- Eric Walters

topic: Children, Book, Children's Books

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

- LeVar Burton

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Children, Book, Children's Books

We be of one blood, ye and I

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Mowgli of the Jungle Book: The Complete Stories”, p.52, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Blood, Children's Books

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Cute, Children's Books, Duchess

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

- Margery Williams

source: The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

topic: Children, Real, Love You, Children's Books, Real You

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

- George Carlin

topic: Faith, Children, Learning, Inspirational Education, Children's Books

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Thinking, Infertility, Times Have Changed

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

topic: Inspirational, Life, Believe, Inspirational Children, Magical Places

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Children, Just Being You

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

topic: Inspiring, Children, Book, Inspirational Children, Children's Books

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

- Margery Williams

source: Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.14, Marshall Cavendish

topic: Real, Eye, Hair, Children's Books, Children's Literature

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

topic: Beauty, Uplifting, Teacher, Good Thoughts, Sunbeams

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

- E. B. White

topic: Friendship, Change, Wisdom, Children's Books, Charlotte's Web

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

topic: Life, Happiness, Beauty, Always Happy, Good Thoughts

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Graduation

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Children, Powerful, Reading, Favorite Book, Joy Of Reading

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Happiness, Christmas, Thank You, Lake Wobegon, Old Books

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Education, Children, Book, Wacky, Inspiring Book

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Just For Fun, Children's Books

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

- R. J. Palacio

source: "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

topic: Standing Out, Born, Trying To Fit In, Inspirational Children, Kids Inspirational

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Ideas, Matter, Persons, Great Respect, Respect Life

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Family, Bff, Family Relationship

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Trying To Fit In, Just Being You

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Real, Life Changing, Mean, Memorable Harry Potter, Inspirational Harry Potter

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Cute, Listen To Me, Inspirational Children

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

- Norton Juster

topic: Inspirational, Mistake, Long, Children's Books, Wrong Reasons

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

- Kate DiCamillo

topic: Children, Reading, Should, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Friendship, Education, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Dog

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

- Margery Williams

source: Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish

topic: Educational, Long, Children's Books, Real You, Becoming Real

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: I've Learned, Childrens Book, Children's Books, Wrinkle In Time

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Individualism, Kids Inspirational, Life Journey

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

- Margery Williams

source: The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

topic: Hurt, Horse, Children, Children's Books, Real You

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

- Dr. Seuss

source: Dr. Seuss (1998). “Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor”, Random House Books for Young Readers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Cheer Up, Great Respect, Respect Life

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, People, Secret, Children's Books, All The Best

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

topic: Love, Life, Determination, Great Marriage, Inspirational Children

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

- Marcus Pfister

source: Marcus Pfister (1992). “The Rainbow Fish”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspiring, Book, Children's Books, Delighted, Books For Kids

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Blue, Two, Red, I Can Read, Children's Books

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

- Robert Munsch

topic: Inspiring, Baby, Love You, Inspirational Baby, Always And Forever

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

- Dr. Seuss

source: The Lorax (1971)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fun, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Children

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Happiness, Music, Hunger For Food, Delicious Food

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

topic: Ignorance, Six, Breakfast, Impossible Dream, Favourite Book

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

- James M. Barrie

source: James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Improve Self Esteem, Self-doubt

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children