My Children Quotes

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.

Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time.

I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

Like the children we will never ever cease to be.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

The rich don't have children; they have heirs.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.