Adam Smith Quotes

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

The capacity of children to become self-sufficient and successful adults is compromised not only by monetary poverty, but by poverty of experience, influence, and expectation

I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.