Quotes About Mentoring Children

#1. There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

Richard Steele

#2. I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Tracy Kidder

#4. A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Carson McCullers

#5. People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

George W. Bush

#6. Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.

David Brooks

#7. If I pretended to be "normal" and behaved just like everybody else, if I masked my emotions and smiled a lot, even if I felt disconsolate, nobody would be able to tell

Preeti Shenoy

#8. Anything short of getting to a place where we can be put up as ambassadors of Heaven is a misnomer.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#9. Tell me I'm here.

Karen Foxlee

#10. Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.

Ali

Davis Miller

#11. The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005

George W. Bush

#12. It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.

Jose A. Aviles

#13. In the dining room, my brother - the scholar - was asking my father what it meant, amadan. My father said, "A fool. It means someone's a fool." Even with the water running, the cup of soapy water at my lips, I could hear my father's shout of laughter when my brother asked him, "Who is?

Alice McDermott

#14. Wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham which leadeth to a Celestial Glory ... for whosoever doeth those things shall be damned Saith the Lord.

Wilford Woodruff

#15. Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

Josh Turner

#16. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

#17. So pink and swollen,Jean-Baptiste whispered,his fingers easing her lips apart,one brushing over the sensitive bud of her clit.

Laura Wright

#18. I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Walter Dean Myers

#19. So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Walter Dean Myers

#20. Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

Herbert Spencer

#21. To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

Steven Erikson

#23. Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Jeff Wall