My Children Quotes

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

I must be the oldest living child soprano.

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.