My Children Quotes

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.

A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

Cry you little monsters!

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

Donald Trump has stated that his three older children will manage his business once he enters office.

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

When I was a very small child I went to a new play group. The first thing I did was run over to a little tot with incredibly chubby cheeks and sink my teeth right into them.

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.