My Children Quotes
The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it
I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.
If every child matters, every child has the right to a good start in life. If every child matters, every child has the right to be included. And that is so important for children with special needs.
The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.
Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.
My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.
Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.
It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.
Words can make you sick. Or healed. - Words create worlds because the universe is always listening... and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"
If you the American citizen leave a child in a hot car and that child was harmed by that you will be charged with negligence even if your action was unintentional.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.
The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.
...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.
I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.
I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
