My Children Quotes

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.

As a child I most closely identified with Charlie Browns teacher. Nobody listened.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.

Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

Shee spins well that breedes her children.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.