My Children Quotes

I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

It’s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, I’ll just do it as long as it feels right for my son.'

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure.

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart.

A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.