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Betty Smith Quotes about Children

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Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Betty Smith
Children, Reading, Printed Word

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

Betty Smith
Children, Teaching, Character
BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

Betty Smith
Disappointment, Children, Teaching
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

Betty Smith
Strength, Strong, Children
BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

Betty Smith
Children, War, Heart

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

Betty Smith
Children, Heartache, Lasts
BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

Betty Smith
Children, Cities, Important
BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

Betty Smith
Children, Want, Never Forget

It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.

Betty Smith
Children, Grief, Winter

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

Betty Smith
Children, Believe, Imagination
BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

Betty Smith
Mother, Strong, Children
BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.

Betty Smith
Mother, Country, Children
BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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