My Children Quotes

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes.

...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

I want to dress like a child as much as possible.

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

I didn't play with other children.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I don't have prejudices. I'm against taboos. But of course there are some things I'll never touch - because as a mom, there are things one doesn't want their children to be around.

A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

I was a very unique child.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

My mom has always said that you don't know what love is until you've had a child.

I have pretty strong views about censorship, and I don't like it. I believe that we should be able to monitor our own families and our own children.

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

Little children never know that they feel seasick, till they are.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.