Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

Our kids now face pressures that didn’t exist when I was growing up…. As parents, it’s very hard to help our children because their experiences are so different to anything we had.

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

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

People don't buy horses to ride around any more for transportation. I just think the world changes. As a business, we have to make the proper adjustments.

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but things change - nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you're always going to be legendary.

My mother did a tremendous job of raising four children in Ottawa under a spotlight.

When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.