Welcome to our collection of Kindergarten Quotes! Kindergarten is often the first step in a child’s educational journey, a place where curiosity is cultivated, friendships are formed, and the foundation for lifelong learning is laid. It’s a time filled with innocence, wonder, and boundless imagination, where every day brings new adventures and discoveries.
In this compilation, we’ve gathered a variety of quotes that capture the essence of the kindergarten experience. From the humorous anecdotes of children’s observations to the profound insights of educators and thinkers, these quotes celebrate the joy, creativity, and importance of early childhood education. Whether you’re a teacher, a parent, or simply someone who cherishes the memories of their own kindergarten days, we invite you to explore these quotes and reminisce about the magic of those formative years. Stay tuned for inspiring words that will resonate with anyone who has ever been touched by the wonder of kindergarten!
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years’ time. Zoltan Kodaly
I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten. Jacquelyn Jablonski
I was a very, very serious child… I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. Christine Lavin
I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher. Karlie Kloss
Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years – from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 – women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men. Tom Brokaw
I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays – even though they were at the YMCA – but it was something I always wanted to do. Chloe Sevigny
Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone’s life. Shane Koyczan
I’m like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. Susie Bright
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don’t know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten. Joan Ganz Cooney
My first audition happened to be for ‘Kindergarten Cop,’ and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn’t really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age. Odette Annable
Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends. Mitchell Zuckoff
My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten. Elizabeth Olsen
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother. Zhang Ziyi
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. Francis Ford Coppola
Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level. Mark Shriver
I couldn’t speak English. I’m in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated. Louis Zamperini
Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot – like, in kindergarten, it was almost all French. But then I moved to New Zealand when I was 10, where we obviously spoke English all the time, so I lost the French a little bit. Stella Maxwell
I used to diet all the time as a kid. I started dieting in, like, kindergarten. I don’t recommend it, but I also don’t judge people who want to do things with their body. Barbie Ferreira
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is ‘hard’ is wrong, so she handed me ‘Hamlet’ when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on ‘Hamlet’ and caused quite a lot of trouble! Seanan McGuire
We went to public schools from kindergarten through seventh grade, and it was fun. Dylan Sprouse
I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet. Yung Lean
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children – regardless of their family’s income, race, or ethnic background – are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. Lucille Roybal-Allard
I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other an apartness, as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee’s father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together. Charles J. Shields
I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying ‘Hi’ to me, and I still remember feeling this way – but I don’t know why – but I wouldn’t even say ‘Hi’ back. I was that shy. Jim Parsons
I’ve had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. J. J. Abrams
It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are – and I am weighing my words carefully – the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday – that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A’s from the time I was in kindergarten. Amy Tan
The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face – it’s not a smile, it’s not a frown. I swear to you, that’s the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, ‘I cannot believe how God has blessed me.’ Viola Davis
I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade. Stacie Orrico
On my daughter’s first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, ‘Just think, in 13 years they’ll leave us and go to college!’ And I went, ‘Gulp.’ Nia Vardalos
If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn’t know what a circle is, doesn’t know what red and green are, and doesn’t know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. C. Everett Koop
My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, ‘How was it?’ and his only complaint was that he didn’t get to stay in there longer. Camila Alves
I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks. Eugenie Clark
I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you’re always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who’d been together since they were in kindergarten. John Lithgow
When ‘Desperate Housewives’ ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition. Marcia Cross
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten. Maira Kalman
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. Krista Allen
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. Tina Fey
For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I’m not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much. Elisabeth Shue
By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture. Jean Craighead George
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. Dalai Lama
In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn’t really know what a rapper was or what they did – I just wanted to do it. B.o.B
If you haven’t heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you’re that age, you don’t know really how to process that; the way you take that is, ‘Who I am isn’t good enough.’ Joanna Gaines
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. Dick Cheney
I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn’t know how to express that. Robert Redford
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. Birch Bayh
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn’t do finger painting in my dress. Allegra Versace
Once I accomplish one thing and I’m satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I’ll become a kindergarten teacher. Kid Cudi
Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America. Dolores Huerta
I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves. Ellen DeGeneres
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That’s probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We’re out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade. Vera Rubin
In my son’s kindergarten, they’re telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I’m doing everything wrong, because I’m trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible. Sebastian Thrun
My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books. Adora Svitak
Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution. Blase J. Cupich
I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten. Sarah Parcak
We’ve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we’re conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that’s the right thing for society. Bryan Cranston
When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week. Tom Rath
My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses. Naveen Jain
One of my first memories is marching with my mom. I was in kindergarten with with the Catholic ladies when Martin Luther King Jr. got shot. We wore the black armbands and marched downtown. Duff McKagan
We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let’s begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation. Marsha Blackburn
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. Orison Swett Marden
One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I’m sure it was ‘Smooth Criminal.’ Chance The Rapper
I’m lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don’t even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, ‘What’s going on?’ when we go places and people come up to me. Miranda Cosgrove
I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot. Hillary Scott
All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten. Robert Fulghum
After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten. Molly O’Keefe
In kindergarten, we’d tell stories with our toys. We’d set a timer for two hours because we knew that was how long a movie was. Matt Duffer
I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic when it came to reading and writing and processing that information. A. J. Pritchard
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today’s kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. Janet Napolitano
I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, ‘Oh, I want to play with my trucks.’ They think it’s not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys. Madeline Carroll
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. Doris Roberts
When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that’s also not saying much considering I’m a terrible speller. Matt Czuchry
In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, ‘Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?’ Binyavanga Wainaina
The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I’m proud to say I was the first to stop running. Jonathan Keltz
Many Israelis are educating their kids in a very nationalist, powerful identity, since kindergarten – and the Arabs as well. Sayed Kashua
I was always falling in love at a very young age – kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it. Babyface
Nature was my kindergarten. William Christopher Handy
I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn’t speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, ‘What? That’s your son.’ John Waters
My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I’m a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there’s a safety in that. Alison Sweeney
I’m not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I’m an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs. Buffy Sainte-Marie
I’ve heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that’s actually delaying the development of literacy. Randi Weingarten
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. Dan Savage
I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter’s played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love. Kristan Higgins
When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up. Brad Pitt
As a very young writer – kindergarten through about fifth grade – I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the ‘Guinness Book of World Records.’ Tananarive Due
I’ve wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up – and I wrote ‘a famous singer!’ Heather Morris
I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy. Zendaya
We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it’s just not good for their cognitive – it’s not good for their social development – I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten… We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them. Jill Stein
Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible – that means full day and full year. And let’s not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs! Randi Weingarten
I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from kindergarten, and she was watching TV because JFK – that Irish Catholic president that we loved – had been killed. Tim Kaine
I’m a kid from Kansas, so J.C. Penney was where I got all my clothes from kindergarten to around 7th grade. Nick Wooster
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. Jill Lepore
I don’t have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I’m protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school – I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them. Miranda Cosgrove
I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I’m a tomboy at heart, too. Zendaya
As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued. Mikaela Hoover
My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study. Ada Yonath
I’ve always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has ‘I love you, Daddy’ written on it. She’s always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It’s like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she’d ever written to me and it means the world to me. Kiefer Sutherland
When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I’d find myself longing to be in the other line. Sarah McBride
I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter’s kindergarten class. Tucker Carlson
