My Children Quotes

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them.

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I am so longing to be domestic, , cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach.

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal and its palpability taketh its original in the anger the eternal nature is its root.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.