Quotes About Impact

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

We speak of love when we destroy nature.It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.