My Children Quotes

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

The more you focus on connection the more free you are on one hand and the more free you can be because the child does feel authentically connected to their destiny.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

I like children. If they're properly cooked.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.