My Children Quotes

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.

. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

Children become what they are told they are.

Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13 year old child, unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never, it'll be over my dead body. How dare they.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.