I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

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

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Share This Page