My Children Quotes

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.

I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.

I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

We children learned responsibility automatically.

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

It's very important to instill values in children.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.

I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.

It shouldn't hurt to be a child.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.