My Children Quotes

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.