My Children Quotes
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.
Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.
Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.
Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.
...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.
Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.