803 – “Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?”

–Cicero

778 – “A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.”

–Frida Kahlo

534 – “When I look down at this golden statue, may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from your dreams are valid.”

–Lupita Nyong’o

266 – “Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth, and love.”

–Cornel West

144 – “I grew up in an environment where I thought Muslims and Arabs were the ones who kill, but through education I discovered this wasn’t the truth – and then I was able to forgive. You can’t forgive if you don’t know the truth, which is why education is so important… If young folks know the truth, change will come.”

– Emmanuel Jal

110 – “The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.”

– Adora Svitak