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Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.
I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
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.
I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.
I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.
I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly.
May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.
You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.
Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.
Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.
We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.