My Children Quotes

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

There are two ways to travel, first class or with children.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

Whenever I deal with children or the military, that becomes special to me.

If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ.

The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

I will do anything for Guillermo del Toro, if he asked me. I would give him my first-born child.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.

Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.