My Children Quotes
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?
We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.
… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.
Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.
If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?
I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children
Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.