My Children Quotes

A burnt child loves the fire.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

It's OK to let your children see you cry.

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

If young children boo me, that makes my day.

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

I was born a poor black child.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.