My Children Quotes

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

I played like a child!

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

I deliver babies for a living. I have certainly delivered more than 150 children in my lifetime, yet I'm always puzzled when I hear that one of those children I delivered has autism.

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy.

Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor.

People like to make children into little grown-ups.

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

I guess I was a philosophical child.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.