My Children Quotes

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.

A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

We all can dance when we find music that we love.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

Beauty is the child of love.

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.