My Children Quotes

I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Portals of divinity are everywhere. I believe that children may enter these divine portals easier, because they are seeking for answers in the purest way.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

And what a bizarre time we're in, Jan, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.