My Children Quotes
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.
I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.
Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.
For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.
I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.