My Children Quotes

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

Children can change the world.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.

A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

I care about the children of Detroit.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

I played classical as a kid.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

A child is an angel dependent on man