Top 100 My Children Quotes
#1. I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
Samantha Bee
#2. Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
Louise Brown
#3. Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
John Vianney
#4. I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.
Andrea Bocelli
#5. We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
Jim Valvano
#6. When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
Olympia Dukakis
#7. I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#8. Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.
Annette Bening
#9. XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#10. I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#11. Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
George R R Martin
#12. 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
#13. I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.
Jon Gordon
#14. My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
Treat Williams
#16. I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.
John Huston
#17. When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.
Harvey Stanbrough
#18. 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
#19. I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.
Harry Connick Jr.
#21. I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I'd consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but in a friendlier, more momlike way. Their little bodies make me salivate. It takes everything I have not to swallow them whole.
Amy Poehler
#22. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.
Gloria Furman
#23. Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
Lillian Gordy Carter
#24. Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile.
Mother Teresa
#26. I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
Boris Becker
#27. Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.
Charles Mingus
#28. I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
David Bailey
#29. I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
Sharon Stone
#30. Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
Louis De Bernieres
#31. My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
Nancy Pearcey
#32. I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.
Richard Kind
#34. If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.
Luis Guzman
#35. My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren.
Lee Kuan Yew
#36. I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
P. J. O'Rourke
#37. If I did not allow myself time to exercise and prepare for the day, I would suffer but so would my children. They need a healthy mother. We must take care of our bodies physically and spiritually to be the best provider for our precious children.
Tamara L. Chilver
#38. I'm free ... to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't. I can. And my children will.
Jefferson Smith
#39. 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
#40. Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
Ben Marcus
#41. I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.
George Mason
#42. In hindsight, I was totally unprepared for the truth. I will live without my children much longer than I lived with them. That's a difficult reality after submerging twenty years of my life into the responsibilities, joys, and frustrations of raising kids.
Elaine Ambrose
#43. I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.
Tamara L. Chilver
#44. I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
Branch Rickey
#45. I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben
#46. Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. It's time, my children
When the waves rise high
When the waters run deep
When the clock strikes midnight
You'll feel the mark of Zero Hour
And you'll never be the same again
Lisa Mangum
#48. It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
Bobby McFerrin
#49. The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
Max Von Sydow
#50. I've been a loner all the time throughout my life ... I haven't been the best father ... Many times ... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.
B.B. King
#51. We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
Solomon Burke
#52. The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
John Keats
#53. I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.
Nicki Minaj
#54. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
Amy Tan
#55. My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#56. I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
Catherine Deneuve
#57. Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.
Christopher Hitchens
#58. Am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can't be helped! He said no more, but expressed his
Leo Tolstoy
#59. My children will not remember the words of wisdom I've passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you've given. However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you've lived before them.
Dorothy Kelley Patterson
#60. I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance - for myself and my children and my children's children - forever.
Carlos P. Romulo
#61. I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.
Elizabeth Taylor
#62. Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#63. Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
Madonna Ciccone
#64. I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.
Colleen Atwood
#65. I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.
Andie MacDowell
#66. My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
Jet Li
#67. I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.
Kate Chopin
#68. Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
Clive Davis
#69. My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
Amy Waldman
#70. 4The greatest joy in my life is hearing how my children are walking in the truth.
Anonymous
#71. I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#72. I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.
Nadya Suleman
#73. I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.
Davy Jones
#74. It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.
Maureen O'Sullivan
#75. On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
Yochai Benkler
#76. I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
Anita Roddick
#77. At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
Al Pacino
#78. I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
Lauren Bacall
#80. From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.
Daphne Guinness
#81. I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.
George Mason
#82. When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
Steven Spielberg
#83. I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.
Kelli O'Hara
#84. You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.
Cherie Blair
#85. I love you," Journeyman said to the lift crystal. He kissed it and spread his arms across its surface in an embrace. "I love you, you big, beautiful beast. I want you to marry me. I want you to bear my children."
"Chief," Grimm said, reproachfully, but his heart wasn't in it.
Jim Butcher
#86. As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Alan Thicke
#87. What are you looking at? she asks.
What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was
put on this earth to find? Yes.
Pete Wentz
#88. I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
Katey Sagal
#89. To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
Cat Cora
#90. I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.
Wynonna Judd
#91. I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money,
Nigella Lawson
#93. I just want Beyonce to be the mother of my children.
Blake Lively
#94. I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#95. But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#96. I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.
Connie Stevens
#97. But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
Ernie Hudson
#98. He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.
Sarah Ferguson
#99. My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.
Timothy Simons
#100. Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.
Ayelet Waldman
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