What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

Quote by Andrew Combe

Topics: Children Quotes, Desire Quotes

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very...

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very...

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals...

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals...

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and...

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and...

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who...

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who...

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each...

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each...

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the...

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the...

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only...

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only...

Children need to be challenged and pushed, not to the point where they give up...

Children need to be challenged and pushed, not to the point where they give up...

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is...

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is...

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born...

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born...

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

Adults are obsolete children.

Adults are obsolete children.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and...

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and...

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School...

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School...

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it...

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it...

If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards...

If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards...