My Children Quotes

All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

One must never tell a child what it is they should display acting.

Roast something for the children that they might eat.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.

Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

Children want to do what grownups do.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.