My Children Quotes
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.
People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things.
The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'
You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.
People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.
It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.
When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.
I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.
Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate
So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.
Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.
Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.
The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.
I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.
I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time