My Children Quotes

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.

I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason.

Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island.

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . . and when you're away from them, who needs it?.

You want to look younger... rent smaller children.

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward.

May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly.

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

Every day I ask my husband, 'Is it possible to over kiss your child?' I literally think I kiss him 200 times in a day. It's not normal!

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Knowing you're a child of the creator of the universe changes everything.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.