#child

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and re-experience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

#discerning #discovery #empiricism #experience #experiment

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#everyone #fail #succeed #wants

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ↗

— Graham Greene

#childhood #door #future #lets #moment

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#any #blessings #children #decide #feel

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#absolutely #baptism #baptized #because #believe

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#child #god #god bless #got #live

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#also #attachments #children #everything #father

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#back #children #enslave #friends #horror

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. ↗

— Sally Field

#born #college #go #grandchildren #last

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#children #doctors #had #her #house