Top 1200 Children Learning Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.

Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Helping others entails learning how you are helped. In order to heal others, you must learn to heal yourself. Learning how to give to yourself is part of learning how to give to others. If you are stingy with yourself, you will be stingy with others. When you understand how everything is given to you, you will be able to give everything to others.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Continuing to expose the children to my and Adrienne's dysfunctional and volatile relationship is causing harm to the children.

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

God is moving powerfully in and amongst children in this hour. You will see MANY children raised up to preach, heal, prophesy, move in miracles, signs and wonders. Numbers of young children will be visited by the Lord in areas of "Divine Intelligence" and many will go to the mission field at an early age.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their children and educate them with love and justice (and not just with words, but with their own behavior) the relationship with their children will be wonderful. Then parents will always be proud of their children, and children will always be proud of their parents. There will be peace in the family, and the home will be a sanctuary.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

I know I haven't spent a lot of time with my children because my job takes me all over the world and takes me away from my children, but I've given them a good education and security. If anything happens to me, my children's future is well-secured. So I think I've done well as a father.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

I have five children of my own, so as a father I understand how important it is to help children in any way you can.