My Children Quotes

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and comforts people so that children feel safe going to school.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

You are a child of God.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

A child is your heart walking around outside your body

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.