My Children Quotes

Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today.

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

Divorce is a journey that the children involved do not ask to take. They are forced along for a ride where the results are dictated by the road their parents decide to travel.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

All revolutions devour their own children.

When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!