Child Quotes

7828 Child quotes by 4374 unique authors

Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside… — William Ruckelshaus
We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in… — Urvashi Vaid
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen… — Eleanor Roosevelt
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. — Red Auerbach
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the… — Franz Cizek
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the… — William Galston
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I… — Isaac Asimov
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in… — John Dewey
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the… — John Dewey
The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original… — Murray Rothbard
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and… — Marian Wright Edelman
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. — Hugh Mackay
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate… — Carol Bellamy
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the… — Yehudi Menuhin
Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results. — Rod Paige
I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more… — George W. Bush
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. — Marva Collins
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he… — Alfred Binet
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are… — Paulo Freire
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with… — William James

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