My Children Quotes
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.
It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, 'Oh, you looked amazing - why didn't you keep that?' Not, 'Oh my God - I can't believe you wore that.'
Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.
All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.
The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.
I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
My school didn't have a drama department. I was one of the lucky four children who got to travel twice a week to another school because our school could only afford one taxi.
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.