My Children Quotes

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.

It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.

The child is an inner possibility, the possibility of renewal.

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Children are the keys of paradise.

No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime