Gabriela Mistral Quotes

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Children enhance you.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

I like children - fried.

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

I've worked with children all my life.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

If plants, and livestock as well, require space and air, sunlight and love, children need them even more. The only real wealth of our country lies in the men and women of the next generation.

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

Kids are important.

You learn a lot from kids.

I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.