Pastoral Resources

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.