My Children Quotes

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Children and cats are the best machines of fun!

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

We're assigned to children who are doomed.

Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?p 181

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want, ' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so...

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...

To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Dating a wo/man with a kid is the new adoption.

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged.

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy.

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

I wonder if a fish'sOne and only wish isThat other fish will never say, "This fish is sure delicious!

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father’s eye and the love in his mother’s heart.

If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.

Parents don't know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact.

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.