My Children Quotes

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.

As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

I have tried my entire life to do what I can to support children and families.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

The home marks a child for life.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Children?have no use for psychology.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.