My Children Quotes

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.

Tell the truth. Say what is happening. Allow what is, and allow it to be known. Bring your children up in a home that is clean and clear and honest. There is no greater legacy you can give them.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

There is nothing like the love or a child.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Parents should never have to bury their own children.

My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

I was a bad boy as a child.

I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.