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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.
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?
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.
You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.
A lot of people like to be supertiny, but I don't want a child's body - I want a woman's body that is extremely fit. It's so much sexier.
What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….
He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.
He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.
The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty.
I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.
I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
I have the best wife and six wonderful children. And I'm proud to report that my future will always be bright with the family that I have.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.
I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.
My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.
We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.