All Lydia Sigourney Quotes
- In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train… Childhood
- The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. Especially
- We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us? Children
- Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of… Admitting
- Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in… Action
- Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent… Aggravates
- A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... Bright
- The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is… Arrangement
- Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. Children