My Children Quotes

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and what we live are the same.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.

I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

I'm not very domestic. For years my children thought mold was a frosting.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

I want your heart, I want to eat your children.

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible. Everything I do revolves around my children.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.