My Children Quotes

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Every time that God gives us a child, it's His way of saying He trusts us-trusts us to offer love and to guide the child toward Him.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

I know how long it took me to lose my weight, and people have got to understand it?s not always easy. If all this can help one child, we are doing our job.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.