My Children Quotes

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

I tell children from all over the country that it's good to eat healthy and nothing to be ashamed about. They know me from the Subway commercials and can relate to what I'm saying.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

My children are the most important thing in my life.

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

Dear children, don't eat anything healthy at home, just keep eating those hamburgers

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?