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, […]
It is ominous for the future of a child when the discipline he receives is based on the emotional needs of the disciplinarian rather than on any consideration of the child’s own needs.
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
And thus it will go on, as long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
