My Children Quotes

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.

Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.

I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.