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Quotes About Children

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways
~ Russel Barkley
The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.
~ RUSSELL A. BARKLEY
Be proactive." Far too often we react to our children's behavior, often on impulse, without regard for the consequences and with no plan for what we are trying to achieve. In those instances we are being acted on and not consciously choosing to act. Seeing a situation from
~ RUSSELL A. BARKLEY
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
~ Russell Crowe
Exams do not assess anything significant to the future of children, because no one knows how to assess or measure the key factors to the future success of any person, child or adult. They are a closed system; tests exist for their own sake. They measure the ability of the entire school community—children, parents, teachers, administrators—to focus all their efforts on producing good results on tests! Nothing more, nothing less. To
~ Russell L. Ackoff
the big decisions we face in life, the wild problems—whether to marry, who to marry, whether to have children, what career path to follow, how much time to devote to friends and family, how to resolve daily ethical dilemmas—these big decisions can't be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.
~ Russell Roberts
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
~ Ruth Ann Minner
If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.
~ Ruth Bell Graham
Children of fourteen were almost always sent, by the infamous Dr. Mengele, directly to the gas chambers.
~ Ruth Gruber
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it's the other way around.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace.
~ Ryan Pack
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
you look at your child with intelligence, do you see that to get him everything that he asks for is sheer stupidity?
~ Sadhguru
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children
~ Malcolm X
X. Of Catulus, not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, but to strive to reduce him to his former disposition: freely and heartily to speak well of all my masters upon any occasion, as it is reported of Domitius, and Athenodotus: and to love my children with true affection.
~ Marcus Aurelius
it is important that children not be taught in such a way that they will later need to unlearn many things. We
~ Marcus J. Borg
Even more striking and revealing is how he interweaves "sons of God" twice in Romans 8:14, 19 with "children of God" twice in Romans 8:16, 21—and again in Romans 9:8. It is, for Paul, all about family values—but divine family values, and that is what makes him very, very radical.
~ Marcus J. Borg
You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.
~ Margaret Atwood
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
~ Margaret Atwood
Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.
~ Margaret Atwood
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
~ Margaret Atwood
Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
~ Margaret Atwood