If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
