My Children Quotes

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.

Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for every man and woman and child, with the doctrine related to marriage.

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord's children

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.