My Children Quotes

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

It’s disgusting that some focus on looks. I brought a beautiful child into this world.

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.

As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world.

Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.

Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.

Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.

Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.

Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.

...the music seems creepy, like when children sing in a horror movie

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.

It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that."

If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.