My Children Quotes

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.

I don't know how to write a children's book.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

God has no cousins, only children.

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.