My Children Quotes
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!
There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.
It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.
British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.
A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children.
Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.