My Children Quotes
Parenthood is a walk in the park...A park full of scorpions that you can't leave without jumping through fiery hoop on a pogo stick.
Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.
The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.
I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do.
The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God. Words to live by.
It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
It is the uninformed that willfully give their children wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation toys.
One of the happiest moments in a father's life is when his children treat him like a brother.
Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply.
Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.
To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.
Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.
Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
Poets and children, " said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.
The zeal of kids is to explore! Until you know how to sustain the real interest of your child, the real interest of your child shall be sustained by something else!
Small children can be startled by the most mundane of noises. A car door from a distance can sound like the sky falling down when heard for the very first time.
There's no more secure investment in the next generation than your prayers for your children!
Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.
There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.
I wuz bad. I did not meen to be. I wanted to see the litle peeple who lives in the radio. I could see the lits on. The radio fel on the flor. The lites won't even werk an thos peeple is ded.
You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.
Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.
Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.
Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.
As a grown-up, you have the widest array of constant struggles and battles you need to win. Yet, the most challenging is making a child know he or she is the noblest and most gratifying cause of all.
You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected, " says McAdams. "And raising children leads to some pretty unexpected happenings.
What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.
This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.
I believe that if children fall in love with wildlife they will grow up wanting to protect it.
We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.
...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.
Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.