My Children Quotes
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.
I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.
Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.
As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.
We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.
For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.
The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.