My Children Quotes

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.

There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Adults are only obsolete children.

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.

We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.