My Children Quotes

Adults are just outdated children.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.