Today in India we celebrate in
a grand and special way a Children's day in honor of our great leader J. Nehru.
Today is the birthday of Pandit Nehru which is celebrated all over India
especially in the schools with fun and frolic. He had a special love, care and
concern for the children of India. Today we remember his love for the children
in gratitude and pray for this great man to inspire today’s leaders. This
celebration should remind and send a strong signal to those who abuse the
children and make them to work unjustly. This celebration reminds that the
little children too are created in God’s image and likeness and they need to be
respected and honored in our lives. Pandit Nehru became the first Prime
Minister of a liberated and independent India under the guidance of Mahatma
Gandhi who inspired him to govern the nation with sacrifice and love. He was a
perfect blend of eastern philosophical values and western scientific thinking
and encouraged technological progress. But he was also a man of letters and a
great poet and wrote some famous works Chacha Nehru as the children fondly
referred to him, was fond of both children and roses. In fact he often compared
the two, saying that children were like the buds in a garden. They should be
carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they were the future of the nation and the
citizens of tomorrow. He felt that children
To celebrate Children's Day and the Birth Anniversary
of Jawaharlal Nehru, following are 5 quotes from Nehru himself and 10 other
quotes, sayings wishes and messages on Children:
Quotes about/on Children from Jawaharlal Nehru:
1. "I like being with children and talking to them
and, even more, playing with them. For the moment I forget that I am terribly
old and it is very long ago since I was a child."
2. "Can you recognise the flowers by their names and
the birds by their singing? How easy it is to make friends with them and with
everything in nature, if you go to them affectionately and with friendship. You
must have read many fairy tales and stories of long ago. But the world itself
is the greatest fairy tale and story of adventure that was ever written."
3. "Grown-ups have a strange way of putting
themselves in compartments and groups. They build barriers... of religion,
caste, colour, party, nation, province, language, customs and of rich and poor.
Fortunately, children do not know much about these barriers, which separate.
They play and work with each other and it is only when they grow up that they
begin to learn about these barriers from their elders."
4. "Some months ago, the children of Japan wrote to
me and asked me to send them an elephant. I sent them a beautiful elephant on
behalf of the children of India... This noble animal became a symbol of India
to them and a link between them and the children of India."
5. "You know we had a very great man amongst us. He
was called Mahatma Gandhi. But we used to call him affectionately Bapuji. He
was wise, but he did not show off his wisdom. He was simple and childlike in
many ways and he loved children... he taught us to face the world cheerfully
and with laughter."
(Note: The above statements were made by Nehru in a beautiful
letter to children he wrote on
3 December, 1949.)
Famous Quotes and Sayings on Children:
1.
"Adults are
just outdated children" – Dr. Suess, American writer
2.
"All
Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows
up" – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
3.
"Each day
of our lives we make deposits in the memory of our children." – Charles R.
Swindoll , author, educator and preacher.
4.
"There can
be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its
children." -- Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa.
5.
"It is with
children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical
knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth." –
Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher
6.
"Always
kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep." – H.
Jackson Brown, Jr., American author
7.
"I prefer
peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children
can live in peace." – Thomas Paine, English and American political
activist
8.
"Make it a
rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." – George
Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics.
9.
"A
definition not found in the Dictionary. 'Not leaving': An act of trust and
love, often deciphered by children." – Markus Zusak, Australian writer
10.
"If you
want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them
to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." – Albert Einstein
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