My Children Quotes

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!

I'd never hurt a woman or a child. It's just not in me.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

My own children are John Cena fans- which really pisses me off by the way.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

If you open your heart and become like a child, you will always be blissful, always content.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.