Browsing Topic Best Our Children Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

It isn’t what you leave your children but how you leave them.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child’s finest teachers.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn’t known you long enough.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it – within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and don’t give it away casually. Don’t compare yourself to others — nearly always this will make you despondent. Don’t accept somebody else’s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions… Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God’s earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.

Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it’s supposed to be.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let’s try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children’s education.

Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world.

Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Your children….are like diamonds…they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

When you say No, you also become a role model of healthy boundaries for others (especially your children).

If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice will have a direct impact on the lives and liberties of our children, our grandchildren, and even our great-grandchildren.