Sidney Poitier Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Kids, Cutting

  Sidney Poitier (2009). “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Father, Teaching

• As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Father, Son

• If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Men, Apologizing

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