My Children Quotes

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Care for all the animals they need our help Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves. And if we work together to try for harmony Someday we will live in peace

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.

Four Very Powerful Words to say to your child: I Believe in you!

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.