My Children Quotes

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

I have two children, and they know that I never pass up a piece of cake, ever.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

We must prepare ourselves to assist the missionaries in finding those of our Heavenly Father's children who will embrace the message of the Restoration.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

I am a child who is getting on.

She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.‎

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.