My Children Quotes

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on.

You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.