My Children Quotes

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

If I have children, after school they'll always feel happy energy in the home.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.

I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.

The best thing a mother can give her child is a happy and fulfilled mom. There are many paths to happiness and fulfillment--follow your heart and choose your own way.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

Justine reached for a fresh tissue and clamped it to Lucy’s nose as if she was a child. “Friends are the support bras of life. We don’t let each other down. Right?

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

I was a very wanting child.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

I'm not raising the children, I'm raising the grown ups that they're going to be.

Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.

In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.