My Children Quotes

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary

The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?

Children are gleeful barbarians.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

The child must teach the man.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

Children and fooles speake true.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

Are you worried that, when you go to hell, you'll only be taking the local and not be on the express? Why would you look for a loophole to deny coverage to children with preexisting conditions?

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Children are unaccountable little creatures.