My Children Quotes

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!

Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!

If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

We are all children until our fathers die.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.

I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.

I’m a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents.

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.