My Children Quotes

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.

Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

Children are all foreigners.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.

What its children become, that will the community become.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.