Children Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks Download Open image “What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...” — Gwendolyn Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Children Poor Giving Land Leastwise Land My children Poor Poor Adjudged Poverty Shall Children
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
We all want to do the best by our children. I will try to ensure my children have something when I leave this green… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image