My Children Quotes

Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

'Son of Saul' film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.

I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.