My Children Quotes

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Old age is but a second childhood.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.

My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

Your body is the child of your soul.

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.