My Children Quotes

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

My husband, children, and my family are my biggest supporters. I just pray to God to keep my family and I aligned at all times, and I just remember where it all got started before show business.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

It's important for children to see what's out there and learn that it's fun to go.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

I've got two wonderful children - and two out of five isn't too bad.

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.

Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas.

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.