"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"