My Children Quotes

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of miracle. Then I got to eight years old and suddenly I was taller than [Bernie Ecclestone].

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

I am available for children's parties, by the way.

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.