My Children Quotes

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Children live what they learn.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.