Eva Moskowitz Quotes

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

Eva Moskowitz

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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hands

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Children
  • Years
  • Graduation

• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Children
  • Day

• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Education

• It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Children
  • History
  • Movie

• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents

• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • Children
  • Party

• I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Children

• 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 the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

  

  William James
  • Children
  • Teacher
  • Philosophy

• I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • World
  • Single

• 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

  

  Charles Edwards
  • People
  • Mad

• Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams
  • Revelations

• I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Children
  • Not Believe
  • Educating