My Children Quotes - Page 25

• The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

  Bear Grylls

  Religious, Jobs, Children

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• I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

  Daphne Guinness

  Children, Hate, Ideas

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• I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Children, Growing Up, Home

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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  Salma Hayek

  Art, Children, Mexican

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• Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

  Salma Hayek

  Dog, Children, Animal

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• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  James Hillman

  Children, Home, White

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• 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?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Real, Writing

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Children, Found

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• Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

  Alice Hoffman

  Children, Gone, Too Much

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• I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

  Francois Hollande

  Children, Debt, Want

  "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.

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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Nightmare

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Firsts, Harm

  "Jackson 'devastated' by Bashir film" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2003.

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• My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Organization, Three

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• I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Able, Return

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Children, Bored, Boring

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• Good words will not give me back my children.

  Chief Joseph

  Children, Giving, Give Me

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• My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Strong, Children, Doubt

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• I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

  Donna Karan

  Children, I Love My Family, Family And Friends

  Interview With Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Length Of Life, Political

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• I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Children, Teach

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• I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

  Nicole Kidman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  Eartha Kitt

  Children, Animal, Feelings

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• I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

  Charles Lamb

  Religious, Children, Father

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1935). “The letters of Charles Lamb: to which are added those of his sister Mary Lamb”

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