My Children Quotes

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

I try to simplify things for the children.

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

It must be weird having one child.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.