My Children Quotes

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

Sticking to it is the genius.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

A baby fills a hole in your heart that you didn't know was there.

In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.