My Children Quotes

Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.

Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying to get into heaven.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed and breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

I'm the third of five children.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good.

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

An adult is just a child who started to rot

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.