My Children Quotes

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

I was always rhyming and doing it for the love before I found out I was gonna have children and when I found out, doing it for the love wasn't enough.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

It's not just children who need heroes.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival.

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.

Since I was a small child, I'd believed we were inherently perfect, and that we had to keep coming back again and again until we recognized our innate perfection.

A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

Even a child who's above average on self-control could improve their financial outcomes in mid-life if they improved their self-control skills early on.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.

A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.

I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.