My Children Quotes

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

The child shall become father to the man.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

Every child needs a champion.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Nothing is part of everything.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.