My Children Quotes
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.
When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.
I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.
Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.
Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.
Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.
Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.
The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.
Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.
There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!
The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.
Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.