My Children Quotes

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?

God, show me how to pray in a way that will make a difference in this child’s life.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

Business is business, no child's play.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

Children notice things first, people later.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

Children are what the mothers are.

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.

A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.