My Children Quotes

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

A child is the root of the heart.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

God loves it when His children pray BIG, BOLD PRAYERS. Don't be afraid to ask your Father for anything!

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.

What is the use of a new-born child ?

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.