My Children Quotes

I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.

When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet

It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.

As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Children: a torment and nothing more.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.