My Children Quotes

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony.

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

I bought cars for all six of my children

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.