My Children Quotes

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.

The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.

My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.