My Children Quotes

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids.

There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.

I must endure...for the world for the children.

I think God outdid Himself when He created children.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

I used to be a dusty little child.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

The Children's Hospital will be a credible demonstration of the commitment of African leaders to place the rights of children at the forefront. Nothing less would be enough.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.