My Children Quotes

The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their mouths, they can start putting it in their bank.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.

I really believe in the goodness of Canadians. The idea that everyone should be given an equal opportunity to succeed in this country and particularly for children.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

It is vitally important that our children know they are loved and safe at home

I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.