Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard. ”

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now? ”

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone. ”

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11. ”

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. ”

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy. ”

The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom. ”

I take leave of Prome and her towering god, Shwa Lan-dau, at whose base I have been laboring with the kindest intentions for the last three months and a half. Too firmly founded art thou to be overthrown at present; but the children of those who now plaster thee with gold will yet pull thee down, nor leave one brick upon another. ”

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.' ”

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith. ”