My Children Quotes

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

I was no good at being a child.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I'm a worldly angel, meaning I've adjusted to the ways of the world, even though I am a child of God. I wouldn't consider myself a Christian rapper, but if we were Christian rappers, we would kill.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.