My Children Quotes

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world. These are children compared to me. Donald Trump is not a child.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

My inner child is not wounded.