T. Berry Brazelton Quotes

I'm into anything that really helps children.

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.'

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

There's nothing more important than the health of our babies.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education, proper nutrition.

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

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

Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

For eight years, I taught special-needs preschool for 18 months to 3-year-olds. It's what I was gonna do with my career for a while, and then I got a little burnt out.

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

If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching with an effective teacher now. This can be a grandmother or a teacher or someone from the community. Grandmothers are especially great. There are a lot of grannies around. Go to your church for help.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

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.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.