My Children Quotes

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

The fact that my parents got over to Canada is kind of amazing in and of itself. Had they not immigrated when I was a child, I probably would have never been doing what I'm doing. So, thanks, Canada!

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

The little things that you saw with a child’s eye and that will never go away. That’s what consciousness is all about.

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didnt survive.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

You say you hate children and people always say the same thing; it would be different if it was your own child. Well what if it wasn't?

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead."

Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.