My Children Quotes

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one.

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I need to grow, as I am here to teach them.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.

According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.

My father loved people, children and pets.