Adults Quote by Colman McCarthy Download Open image “It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.” — Colman McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adults Children Peace Peaceful Violent
You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
No matter your religion, philosophy, or political beliefs, violence is not the way to achieve peace. — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do. — One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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