My Children Quotes

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

As the family goes, so go the children.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

I never put a price on a child

Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

Every man should see the birth of his children

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.

An only child is never twelve.

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.