My Children Quotes

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

We're dealing with problems that kids today have now and that is a scary thing because kids nowadays, obviously, it's no-holds-barred. I'm scared to have children someday.

I love cinema. It is the most important thing to me. Life is cinema. It has been this way since I was a child of about 14, and I was going every day to see the movies.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.

I have the best wife and six wonderful children. And I'm proud to report that my future will always be bright with the family that I have.

Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

I was a very shy child.

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

I was not an attractive child.

Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco.

I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.

Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.