My Children Quotes

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.

Children always turn to the light.

Parental love is unconditional, and so is God's love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

We're all God's children.

How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.