My Children Quotes

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

I would love to adopt a child too but my cat might get jealous. I don't want to see a cat and a baby fighting. It's something I might do later.

Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.

Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.

I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.

It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

The scene that made me furious was watching Padme, a woman who just gave birth to two beautiful children, just giving up the will to live.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.

We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.