My Children Quotes

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

I wouldn't want to play Miss Hannigan. I'm not a villain. She's mean to little children! I can't do that. That would disrupt my brand.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

Destiny's Child literally taught me how to sing.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.

At the doors, people are telling me they are afraid to let their children go to the movies.

You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.

Since I've had children I don't really like horror movies.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.