My Children Quotes
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children
I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
