My Children Quotes

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

God never leaves His children to wander alone. We are always surrounded with unconditional love.

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses.

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

if you want to understand your child better then see through the child's eye.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.

It is not possible to satisfy women, " a friend said. "We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don't have children at all.

God take what He would, " she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who gave her freedom when it didn't mean a thing.

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

I should like to know what sacrifices they make. I think it's the children who make the sacrifices. When I want to eat gooseberries and am not allowed to, the sacrifice is _mine_ not _Mother's_.

Stealing is wrong Billy

There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.

We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for.

Save the children, save mankind.

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

The spirits of children are remote and wise...

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave.

Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.

Children remind us that we're all children.

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it’s God’s will.

She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.

I played with children so that I could learn from them.