Your Children Quotes - Page 12

• When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

  Raymond Blanc

  Children, Hate, Cooking

  "Celebrity Chef Dishes Microwave Mothers". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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• Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Children, Kids, Praise

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• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

  Maurice Gibb

  Appreciation, Children, Trust No One

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

  Tina Brown

  Baby, Falling In Love, Children

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• As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

  Vito Fossella

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]

  Michael D. Barnes

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Discipline, Knows

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• If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hurt, Children, Cancer

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers.

  Louis Agassiz

  Summer, Country, Children

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• You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Butterfly, Years

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.621, VM eBooks

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• If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Children

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• Mothers stay close to your daughters Earn & deserve their love & respect Be united with their father in the rearing of your children Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mothers Day, Daughter, Children

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.

  Gough Whitlam

  Children, Memorable, Hands

  Gough Whitlam's Gurindji Land Ceremony speech, August 16, 1975.

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• Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important responsibility you can have. God wants us to have a loving relationship with our kids and help them grow...just like God's relationship with us.

  John Harbaugh

  Children, Father, Kids

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Demand, Way

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Smart

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.72, Rodale

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• Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Christian

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Children, Way

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.4, Booklassic

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• Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

  Christopher Alexander

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press

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• Parents who have fought fiercely for the rights of their much-loved Gay and Lesbian children should not have to worry that their children will be treated differently. As a mother, I can tell you that there is no prouder moment than watching your children grow up, fall in love, and commit to that love in front of their families and friends. I want that same joy for every parent and every child.

  Christine Gregoire

  Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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• Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Inspiring, Children, Thinking

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• Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

  Gurney Williams

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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• They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.

  Dave Kopel

  Children, Gun, Giving

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