My Children Quotes

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.

Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.

I was an only child, eventually.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

Ours are the arms with which God hugs and holds her children.

Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire... but NOW.

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!

As for where I am now, well, social media didn't exist when I was a child, and I never would have guessed just how much of a role in my life and career technology would play.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Women are fighters. They will fight and fight and fight to get what they need, especially if they have children.

Future system busters will always seem like problem children. But the truth is, they just can't be compacted into any system, and can detect the flaws in them all.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed.

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

What is so real as the cry of a child?

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul.