My Children Quotes
Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.
The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.
I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?
A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.
There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.
Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who can never, in any circumstances, find fulfilment in the decision to abort.
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.
