My Children Quotes
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.
Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.
We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.
There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.