My Children Quotes

I don't yearn to be a child again.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

It's weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Let all children come unto me.

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.