My Children Quotes

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

Spring appears and we are once more children.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she's a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.

What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

I don’t know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.