Naomie Harris Quotes

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

You learn a lot from kids.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

I always love writing about children.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

Books always help.

I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.

… schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape .... Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.