Grace Abbott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
-- Grace Abbott

#Children #Together #Disease
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
-- Grace Abbott

#Moving On #Agency #Government
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
-- Grace Abbott

#Children #School #Democracy
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
-- Grace Abbott

#Girl #Baby #Responsibility
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
-- Grace Abbott

#Home #Night #Jam
Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.
-- Grace Abbott

#Children #Justice #Democracy
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.
-- Grace Abbott

#Children #Responsibility #Childhood

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

Grace Abbott famous quotes

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