My Children Quotes
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.