Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Russell M. Nelson

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• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Facebook
  • Spy

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Children
  • Want
  • Know

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Obvious
  • Sticky

• Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • School
  • Doing

• The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Children

• The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Up
  • Children
  • Art

• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?

  

  Jeanne Phillips
  • Children
  • Question
  • Profound

• I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Children

• At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Time
  • Children

• I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Children
  • Words
  • Amazing

• I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Children
  • Death
  • Small

• Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • Nature
  • High
  • Society

• We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth’s moon.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Earth
  • Moon

• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• An only child alone and wildA cabinet maker's son.His hands were meant for different workAnd his heart was known to none -He left his home and went his lone and solitary wayAnd he gave to me a gift I knowI never can repay.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Home

• I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • I Love
  • Christianity
  • Faiths

• If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Spiritual
  • Myth