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Quotes About Children

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.
~ Murad S. Shah
In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!
~ James Monroe
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
~ Gabriela Mistral
Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.
~ Usher
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
~ Denis Diderot
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
~ Richard Allington
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
~ George J. Mitchell
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.
~ Unknown
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.
~ Unknown
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
~ Shelby Steele
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
~ Karl Marx
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
~ Desmond Tutu
I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.
~ Kevin Nealon
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
~ Brad Sherman
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.
~ Lev S. Vygotsky
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
~ Aristotle
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
~ Carol Bellamy
If children have interest, then Education happens
~ Sugata Mitra
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
~ Danny Glover
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
~ Charlotte Mason
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
~ Shannon Miller