My Children Quotes

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.

When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

I've had no sexual education, but I have six children.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.