Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

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.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

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

On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.

My mother was the making of me.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.