My Children Quotes

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.

Insecurity is love dressed in a child's clothing.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children.

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.