My Children Quotes
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.
I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.
I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.
Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.
It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.