Children Quote by Gordon B. Hinckley Download Open image “Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.” — Gordon B. Hinckley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Encourage Less More Read Reading Television Watch Your
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Don't let the children watch TV until they know how to read, or else all they'll know how to do is cuss, fight, and… — Prince Copy Share Image
Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share
How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share
Encourage your children to read. Reading can unlock the keys to a whole world of information. Parents are teachers, both by example and by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
“Now we are at war. Great forces have been mobilized and will continue to be. Political alliances are being forged. We do not know how long this conflict will last. We do not know what it will cost in lives and treasure. We do not know the manner in which it will be carried out. It could impact the work… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share
“Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I have lived long enough and served in enough different capacities to have removed from my mind, if such were necessary, any doubt of the divinity of this, the work of God. We respect those of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is need for… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht 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
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
