Quote #7
I think, 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.
More from Eleanor Roosevelt
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me …
- I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live to…
- Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.