My Children Quotes

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

The average American is just like the child in the family.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two children, you know? Isn't it for everybody?

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

My wife and children are the greatest force that keeps me sober and strong.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

Bringing children into it was just low, I decided. At least heʹd left puppies out.

You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome

All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?” “They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

I've got the attention span of a child.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

I believe in anything that causes mass hysteria in children.