My Children Quotes

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I like children - fried.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

If you have attacked me, your children will pay for it.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.

Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.

I like Destiny's Child.

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

With the exception of my wife and children, there's nothing I value more than my Oklahoma heritage.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.