Anthony Browne Quotes

A child deserves the maximum respect.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

The more we reach out and become vulnerable and share our stories, the more people we will meet that will unite and help us to achieve more equality.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

Channel 4 know I'm messed up. But they've got a soft spot for me.

The tenets of my cultural teachings are rooted in our commitment to lift up every community member so that no one is left behind. Work and food were shared equally. Through our commitment to community, we care about children, even when they aren't ours, and we want our old folks, and yours, to live their last days in dignity and comfort.

Employ empathy.

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

Love means being kind to each other.