My Children Quotes

Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.

Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

There is a child in all of us.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.

To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice.

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.

We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.

I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!