Being Quote by Jeff Kinney

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their…

— Louis Sachar

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

— Anonymous

My kids don't listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that…

— Kristian Bush

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality…

— Eazy-E

“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give your children…

— Richard Dawkins

“A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never…

— Patty Smith

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

— Roy L. Smith

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very,…

— Mark Haddon

We've never tried to educate children. We've never tried to preach to them, just entertain.

— William Hanna

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is…

— Walt Disney

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've…

— Fisher Ames