Children Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“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

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

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“...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

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“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