Children Quotes

We have struggle to not proceed but to preceed to the future of a nation’s child.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Laura and I really don’t realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis. (CNBC, April 15, 2000)

To see your child through the Eyes of Delight is the greatest gift in the world you can give to your child and to yourself.

I’ve been to war. I’ve raised twins. If I had a choice, I’d rather go to war. (Jan. 27, 2002)

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit […]

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children. (on “parental empowerment in education)

We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that’s responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, […]