My Children Quotes

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

A child needs your love most when he deserves it least

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

I would say luck and preparation. I didn't dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn't labelled the golden child from day one, it's been a very long road.

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

Truth is child of Time.