Book Quote by Rohini Nilekani Download Open image “My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.” — Rohini Nilekani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Child Children Every Goals Hand Mission
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing. — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division. — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if left on… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Addressing governance issues are important because whichever silo you work in, be it education, microfinance, sanitation, food or health, you would eventually hit governance… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go and where… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.' — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang 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
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
