children quotes

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

I really like children to watch my movies.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

In the real world, children love me.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.