My Children Quotes

The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.

I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.

God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

We are always children to our mothers.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Every year is vital in the life of a child.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.