My Children Quotes
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.
I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.
Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.
Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.