My Children Quotes
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.
Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, "no." If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they'll say, "Yes."
And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.
I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.
Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
