My Children Quotes

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

Late children are early orphans.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious!

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.

We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.

I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future !

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

There's nothing stronger than a woman protecting her child

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

There is no place like home.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?