My Children Quotes

What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

Divorce can leave children feeling like defectors.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

All wars are waged against children

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.