"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America"

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

"The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences"

"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"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

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

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"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"

"Our children's children will hear a good story"

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"