My Children Quotes

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

Love is the key. Giving your children joy and happiness...when you give it to them, you will receive it as well.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

My granddaughter and I are inseparable. She keeps me wrapped around her little finger.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

I was a good liar as a child.

It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

I did not give Xanax or anything else to my child.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.