My Children Quotes - Page 5

• Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.

  Gary Myers

  Children, Communication, Talking

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• I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.

  Trisha Goddard

  Children, Taken, Bangs

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• You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

  Lee De Forest

  Children, Media, Made

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• Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

  Peter Woo

  Children, People, Mentor

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• I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.

  Donna de Varona

  Leadership, Sports, Daughter

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• My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

  Columba Bush

  Children, President, United States

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• I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.

  Joe Biden

  Children, Home, Wife

  "Making love in the White House is even better". thehill.com. June 27, 2006.

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• My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

  Enya

  Children, Teeth, Mouths

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• If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Care, Reason

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.40, Lulu.com

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• I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Mind, Saying Never

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• Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

  Frank Lampard

  Children, Book, Reading

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• The very first time I realized what unconditional love meant ; was the very first time I held each one of my children in my arms. It was love at first sight.

  Nishan

  Children, Unconditional Love, Sight

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• I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

  Anita Baker

  Children, Doctors, Looks

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• I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Catholic, Like Me

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• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  Sadie Frost

  Children, Kids, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I realize the differences between my children and use what works for each of them individually.

  Jennie Finch

  Children, Differences, Use

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• I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

  Karin Fossum

  Children, Believe, Despair

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• Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

  Gordon Getty

  Mother, Children, Cynthia

  "Getty's double life stuns Californian high society" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 1999.

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• I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Writing, Holiday

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• I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

  Eike Batista

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

  Michael Easton

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• I owe it to my children to secure their future.

  Scott Peterson

  Children, Secure

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• When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

  Aaliyah

  Mom, Growing Up, Business

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• I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

  Sue Grafton

  Husband, Children, Pages

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• I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hands, America

  "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.

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