Paul Weyrich Quotes

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

I don’t want the Government to teach my kids’ family values.

In vain are Schools, Accademics and universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years…How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality and Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn that their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

The society will have good children, if the mothers are good. If the mothers lack sense and knowledge, the children may go the wrong way.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

It takes a village to raise a child.

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

The transmission of our culture is as important as the transmission of wealth. Children are always watching us.

Although the world has undergone many changes, both good and bad, in the past century, change need not imply the loss of traditional values. Nor is progress another word for moral decay. It is not development and progress which jeopardize values and morality but rather the absence of a strong and secure moral foundation developed first and foremost in the family. Surely, it is possible for one to enjoy the conveniences of modern life-airplanes and automobiles, computers and cell phones, microwaves and VCRs-without losing one's sense of values. When we love God, love our families, we can enjoy life without betraying the practices of decency, without abandoning the traditions of our cultures.

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.