Your Children Quotes - Page 36

• No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Christmas, Children, Giving

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• If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Parent, Faults

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.37, BookBaby

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• One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Children, Experts

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• ... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.

  Phyllis Diller

  Children, Writing, Dust

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• Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

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• Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

  Glenn Beck

  Children, Promise, Demand

  "'Glenn Beck': Founders' Friday: George Whitefield". "Glenn Beck" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. May 14, 2010.

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• Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Home, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Suffering, Easier, Grows

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Looks, Riddle

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

  Debra Messing

  Children, School, Numbers

  "Debra Messing Talks ‘Smash’ Season 2, Sean Hayes, Barbra Streisand And More". Interview with Leigh Weingus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

  Tracy Morgan

  Children, Important, Knows

  "Tracy Morgan Is Tired of You Being 'So Damn Sensitive About Everything'" by Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

  Idina Menzel

  Baby, Children, Book

  "Idina Menzel Relives Childhood Through Motherhood" by Anya, celebritybabies.people.com. January 30, 2011.

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• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Jobs, Children, Speak

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• There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

  Carre Otis

  Children, Parent, Realizing

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

  Joan Cusack

  Children, Character, Kids

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• You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

  Martin Freeman

  Children, Dad, Special

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• A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

  Justine Bateman

  Children, Reality, Neutrality

  "We Need To Put Our Foot Down On Net Neutrality" by Justine Bateman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Children, Fall, Order

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (p. 175), 1994.

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• Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.

  Sophie von La Roche

  Children, May, Dresses

  Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.138, SUNY Press

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• I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Lonely, Children, Growing Up

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• I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Parent, Healthy

  "I weighed my parents' love on the bathroom scales" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

  Arabella Weir

  Children, School, Firsts

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• I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more importantly, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your co-workers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

  Jack Canfield

  Children, Believe, Book

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• What they are planning for us; sex, religion, money in the New World Order. Which is more corrupt? The liberal media or the multi-national corporations? Why truly big money wants your children to try drugs, even while they campaign to discourage these evils. How the brilliant scientists have come up with the proven methods to destroy your family. All you have to do is let your guard down.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Sex, Children, Media

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