My Children Quotes

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

How do we love all the children of all species for all time?

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Tell the children the truth.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.