My Children Quotes

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

Let's save all the children, save the babies, save the babies.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

You are a child of the universe.

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too, Because only God knows what you'll go through.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.