My Children Quotes

Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

Boldness is a child of ignorance

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.

Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.