Poverty Quote by Susan Cain

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

“Poor children are raised without so much more than material things. They are raised without a clear sense of their own horizons, but rather…

— Willie Parker

“some of the brightest kids prove to be the most vulnerable to becoming helpless, because they feel the need to live up to and…

— Josh Waitzkin

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured--emotionally and intellectually--respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Especially, most essentially, by themselves.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“A society should be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us, especially children, and that the measure of our success should…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

— Laurie Frankel

“Family-centered parents do not have the emotional freedom, the power, to raise their children with their ultimate welfare truly in mind. If they derive…

— Stephen R. Covey

“The abused children feel so useless within that they become more vulnerable to exploitation in the future too.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“When you have a small population, children are valued – they are the future, after all, and, for the kids themselves, this manifests itself in a…

— Jodi Taylor

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard