My Children Quotes

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.

Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

I love romantic comedies. I love romantic movies. I'm kind of a sucker for them, and, sort of end up crying at the end of them all, like a child.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

The truly beneficent mind looks upon every child of sorrow as their relation, and entitled to their assistance.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

[On her seven-month-old son:] When people see me carrying him in the street they think I'm being attacked by a short, bald man. But it's just me with my little fat child.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.

White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.