My Children Quotes

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

You should always trust the instincts of children.

I was a disruptive child.

What can we do to make the world's children a priority.

My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

I don't really believe you are married unless you have children. And people who only have one kid don't really have kids.

When you have children, that's when your relationship really gets tested.

They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

Once you have six children, you're committed.

I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.