My Children Quotes

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

Children be comforted, I am well.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

The nasheeds I do are for children, the youth, and for the older people.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.

What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.

Isn't it interesting how Christians are not afraid to teach their children about evolution?

Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.