My Children Quotes

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Wu-Tang is for the children.

Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.