My Children Quotes

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

Children and fooles cannot lye.

Burnt child fire dredth.

Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

I find it difficult to say, like "which child do you prefer the most", and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

I am a child of the 21st century.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.