My Children Quotes

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then what is the role of my Friend? Friend is my Motivator in life.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.

We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child.

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.