My Children Quotes

Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

I really do want to have a child.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford.

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, "Oh! I have a baby!" So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

I don't have any kids. Well, at least none I know about.

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child.

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!" Why was I not surprised? "Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.