Quotes for All
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive…It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week. Ezra Taft Benson
The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan. Erik Erikson
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. Edna St. Vincent Millay
As I look back on it now, I’m thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury – the luxurious opportunity – of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, … Read more
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clark
As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn’t as good as a white child. Coretta Scott King
I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn’t make any sense – how … Read more
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a … Read more