I’ve been to war. I’ve raised twins. If I had a choice, I’d rather go to war. (Jan. 27, 2002)
Children Quotes
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, […]
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.
It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. (Arlington Heights, Illinois, Oct. 24, 2000)
But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence Than the strong man in his wrath!
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
