Thomas More Quotes

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ... for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Why cannot some of the money the government spends be used to take the children and youths who will become criminals, and educate them and put them into suitable environments so that they will become normal people?

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

Our first priority is our kids.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

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

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.