My Children Quotes

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.

wow it was sad the break up thing in xmas but in the end they got back together but the father soo hush to the children

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

I feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded.

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.

Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Children bring their own love with them when they come.

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips.

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

I always love writing about children.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Genius is sorrow's child.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.