My Children Quotes
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature
In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being.
As a child, I use to act with my sisters at home, we created our own scenarios and acted them out, we had great fun doing that.
The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.
There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.
When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.
My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.
I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.
As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.
Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.