My Children Quotes

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.