Browsing Quotes With Tag: children (16)
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Speaker: Frederick DouglassPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: Conference Report, Apr. 1978, pp. 13–15; or Ensign, May 1978, pp. 10–11Posted: 14 Mar 2013 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God forbid that there should be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than for the things of righteousness, for fear of offending them.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Gospel Doctrine, p. 286Posted: 26 Feb 2012 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Source: http://www.quotegarden.comPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As we train a new generation, so will the world be in a few years. If you are worried about the future, then look to the upbringing of your children.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the role of responsibility… ‘Youth need fewer critics and more models [to follow].’ One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or girl.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not let your children out to specialists…, but teach them by your own precept and example, by your own fireside. Be a specialist yourself in the truth.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What was there to laugh at? Not much, really, unless you were the kind of person who was on a permanent lookout for something to laugh at. Unfortunately, that was exactly the kind of person most kids were, in his experience. They patrolled up and down school corridors like sharks, except that what they were on the lookout for wasn’t flesh but the wrong trousers, or the wrong haircut, or the wrong sneakers, any or all of which sent them wild with excitement.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: About a BoyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can’t do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.
…I realize that, these days, a guy like Coach Graham might get thrown out of a youth sports league. He’d be too tough. Parents would complain.
…It saddens me that many kids today are so coddled.Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When I was finally dismissed, one of the assistant coaches came over to reassure me. “Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?”
I could barely muster a “yeah.”
“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My mother, meanwhile, knew plenty, too. All my life, she saw it as part of her mission to keep my cockiness in check. I’m grateful for that now. Even these days, if someone asks her what I was like as a kid, she describes me as “alert, but not precocious.” We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here’s my mother, figuring “alert” ought to suffice as a compliment.
When I was studying for my PhD, I took something called “the theory qualifier,” which I can now definitively say was the second worst thing in my life after chemotherapy. When I complained to my mother about how hard and awful the test was, she leaned over, patted me on the arm and said, “We know just how you feel, honey. And remember, when your father was your age, he was fighting the Germans.”
After I got my PhD, my mother took great relish in introducing me by saying: “This is my son. He’s a doctor, but not the kind who helps people.”Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here’s my mother, figuring “alert” ought to suffice as a compliment.
Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“We have a saying, in the Pashto language, and the meaning of it is that you are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I thought you didn’t like kids.”
“I don’t. They’re so …innocent. Except they’re not. They know exactly what they want, and they don’t stop till they get it. It’s disgusting. All the worst people I know are just like big, grown-up children.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I shook hands with him, his small hand vanishing in mine. Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We do not inherit the world from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.
Speaker: Native American ProverbPosted: 13 Jul 2008 at 9:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!