My Children Quotes

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.