My Children Quotes

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Never lose your child's heart.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.

There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.