U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty…

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.”

— Lukasz Laniecki

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new…

— Tony Buzan

All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the…

— Freeman Dyson

“I've come to believe in my bones that children - especially children in poverty - are desperate for an education to help them discover…

— Shanna Peeples

Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people…

— Russell Means

While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once…

— John Edward

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

— Robert Anton Wilson

How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the…

— Gloria Reuben

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do…

— Ory Okolloh

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees