93 Inspirational Cute Daycare Quotes to Warm Your Heart

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

- Dr. Seuss

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

- Peggy O’Mara

"Children are not things to be moulded, but people to be unfolded."

- Jess Lair

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them FEEL."

- Carol Buchner

"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."

- Fran Lebowitz

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

- Casals

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."

- Scott Hayden

"Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."

- Jess Lair

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

- Stacia Tauscher

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Play is the shortest route between children and their creative calling."

- Vince Gowmon

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

- Dr. Haim Ginott

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"To take children seriously is to value them for who they are right now rather than adults-in-the-making."

- Alfie Kohn

"Every child you encounter is a divine appointment."

- Wess Stafford

"Children have more need of models than of critics."

- Joseph Joubert

"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child."

- Forest E. Witcraft

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

- James Baldwin

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves."

- Joseph Campbell

"Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play."

- Magda Gerber

"Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality…. Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere.. .. The cost of poor quality day care is measured in children's lives. High quality day care costs only money."

- Sandra Scarr

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"The future of the world is in my classroom today."

- Ivan Welton Fitzwater

"Play is the highest form of research."

- Albert Einstein

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained."

- Lyman Abbott

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

- John Cotton Dana

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before."

- Loris Malaguzzi

"Being able to help someone learn something is a talent."

- Margaret Riel

"Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

- Robert Frost

"Be sure that in your educating you are not manufacturing obedient citizens, but rather unleashing powerful, creative souls."

- Vince Gowmon

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges."

- Joyce Meyer

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

"Don't just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything."

- George Carlin

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories."

- John Wilmot

"I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is."

- Oprah

"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil."

- Walt Disney

"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

- Colleen Wilcox

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark van Doren

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

"In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn."

- Phil Collins

"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

- Barbara Colorose

"Making the decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."

- Franklin P. Jones

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

- Confucius

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

- C. S. Lewis

"There are two types of education…One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."

- John Adams

"In every seed, there is the promise of a forest."

- Susan Jeffers

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning."