My Children Quotes

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Children are for people who can't have dogs.

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.

It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.

My mother insisted that her children read.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

Children and fools cannot lie.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

Children and fools speak true.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.