My Children Quotes
Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.
When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.
Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.
In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.
Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally.
Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere("Between Four Yews")
It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.
Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.
Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.
It isn't the amount you spend today, it's what you want to invest in for the future!
For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.
Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.
We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.
Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!
You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.
Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.
Children are God’s way of letting us know His work will continue, even long after we are gone.
I walk the beach to smile at other peopleand their busy children, trying to findanother way to save the world.
Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.
Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.
I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.
Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.
Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.
Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.
God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.
I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.
People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.
Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.
Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.
If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.
Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.
You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.
My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did.
Good evening, children, ' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.
You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?
Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything.
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.
Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.
The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies.
Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.