Lydia Sigourney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Children #Parenting #Strive
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Children #Speak #Our Children
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 your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Children #Evil #Childhood
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Home #Intelligent #People
O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Children #Dark #Garden
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Humility #Pride #Evil
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 good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Gratitude #Cheer #Powerful
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 regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Education #Teacher #Heart
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 like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Learning #Science #Order
The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Mother #Stars #Children
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Country #Successful #Essentials
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Home #Independent #Self
Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Light #Race #Names
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 power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Education #Mother #Sex
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor...
-- Lydia Sigourney

#Gratitude #Gold #Sides

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