My Children Quotes

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids.

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

I want my kids to live their life with great family memories that they can pass on to their children.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

Throughout the series [Narcos], I appear younger and younger - I don't know why that is particular to Netflix, to show the evolution of Pablo Escobar's children in that manner.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

You’re going to be my grandmother.” “You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to make it official.

It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Men aren't asked about their children.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.

My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.