My Children Quotes

Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

Whenever one of my children says, 'Goodnight, Daddy,' I always think to myself, 'You don't mean that.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

You're only as happy as your least happy child.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

If children have interests, then education happens.

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

My hopes are that I can give my children security, health, and the confidence to create the life they want and serve others.

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.

Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.