My Children Quotes

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

I was a poster child... for birth control!

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

We be of one blood, ye and I

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!