Agency Quote by Anthony Browne

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's…

— Anthony Browne

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

— Glenn Beck

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit…

— John Taylor Gatto

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen…

— Gideon Rachman

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render…

— Alfred Nobel

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like…

— Stanislaw Lem

“Participation awards are for children and a leader should never accept one.”

— Donavan Nelson Butler

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a…

— Charles Ghigna

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature…

— Charles Spurgeon

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee…

— Leon M. Lederman

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the…

— Joyce Carol Oates