My Children Quotes

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

Lawless schools produce lawless children.

If I was dead broke and had to feed my three children. I'd do anything.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven