Steve Kagen Quotes

In an increasingly complex world, we have a simple and bold vision that all children should have the opportunity to grow up healthy.

There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

We cannot educate children who are not healthy, and we cannot have healthy children without education.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.