As, November 14 every year, people across the country celebrates Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday and celebrate the day as Children’s Day. Nehru, who was India’s first prime minister, is considere for his affection and affection  for children and was fondly called Chacha Nehru. So, November 14 is aptly remembered as the Children’s Day. Schools across the country hold special programmes on this day. 

As the nation celebrates Children’s Day, here are 10 famous quotes on children by prominent personalities.
* “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
– Margaret Mead

* “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

* “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
– Oscar Wilde

* “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

* “The soul is healed by being with children.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

* “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

* “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.”
– Jess Lair

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
— John F Kennedy