My Children Quotes
I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!
There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.
To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish.
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.
And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.
Anyone who has kids knows that children like to be around chickens, goats, whatever. My kid loves to go out and feed the chickens and collect the eggs. It's a nice way of living.
If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'
However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists
Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.
Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.