My Children Quotes

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.

the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

The public service is not a serial child-snatcher