My Children Quotes

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

The Earth herself is spirit, she is like a young child.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

In the soft and gentle arms of a mother's love, children can come to know the voice of the Lord.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

You can never spend enough time with children.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."

When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'

You know it's a sad day when your child looks at you and asks 'Daddy, are these organic?'

Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.

When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.