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Children

«Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.»
«Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.»
Author: Dr. Haim Ginott | About: Children, Learning
«A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.»
Author: Louis Finkelstein | About: Children, God, Parents | Keywords: rabbi
«Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.»
Author: Octave Mirbeau | About: Children
«Better a snotty child than his nose wip'd off»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | About: Children | Keywords: snotty
«By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God»
«A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after»
«Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.»
«Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.»
«But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.»

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