Quotes on Children

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

The child becomes a person through work.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?

Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.