My Children Quotes

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

I don't like to generalize, but if you see a guy with his shirt tucked into his shorts, he's probably killed three or four children.

Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children.

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

I started writing stories as a child.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

Being an ex-child star is not a given.

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested

I love children, but I don't think I can eat a whole one.- Bumper sticker

I've never actually given birth to a child, but I suspect that going to a Justin Bieber concert with a child is close.

Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00

Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.

One Child's courage to survive.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.