My Children Quotes

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

Love is for children and dimwads.

When You Weren’t Looking The child became a woman, though she wasn’t ready to. Don’t ask how or why. Those questions are not important ones. Can’t you see you didn’t care enough to notice?

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.

Children need adult men in their lives.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.