My Children Quotes

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

Who's taking care of the children is an important question for all of us.

I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective way. So, I think that may have trained me.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

As far as cookbooks go, I think Joy of Cooking is a classic. I've used it over and over again. Julia Child frustrates me. By the time you get all her herbs together, you're exhausted

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

A watched child never learns.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.