Margaret O'Shaughnessy Heckler Quotes

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

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.

The left and right have been as bad as each other. The left has allowed its distrust of markets and endless faith in government to obscure the importance of civil society. The right has been so focused on replacing the state with markets that it has forgotten how to cultivate a trusting society

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

We see in Africa the way it builds up historical resentments, people’s sense that they cannot place faith in the system. Over time, people who hear this message can come to believe that they do not have a stake in the state or have a responsibility to obey the rule of law that they are told no longer exists. When you start to delegitimize your system, including your electoral systems, your media and the police in different ways, then you start to have people genuinely questioning the value of the system. It takes a generation to rebuild that trust. This is not something that gets done in a year or two.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity's faith later.

We are our children's first teachers.

There's nothing more damning in life than a child calmly and coldly saying, 'Are you aware that you're teaching me bad habits?'

I'm a big fan of public trust.

It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully