My Children Quotes
We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.
A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?
I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.
My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.
When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.
According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!
The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?
People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.