Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

All children deserve the best.

Kids are important.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

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.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Play is really the work of childhood.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

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

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

Being a child is in itself a profession.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

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.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.