Best My Children Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

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.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I’d feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

My children threw me a life line: Return to your roots – food – and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet. I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

I’d like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.

Many people have said to me, What a pity you had such a big family to raise. Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that. And I looked at my children and I said, These are my poems, these are my stories.

Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I’m going to do something I want to do.I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother.

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

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

If tomorrow all the things were gone I’d worked for all my life, And I had to start a new one with just my children and my wife, I’d thank my lucky stars to be living here today, ‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away. And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.

I love all my children, but some of them I don’t like.

I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless… but still chic!

When I say, ‘We’re a team,’ the reason why I point that out is because at ‘All My Children,’ that’s the mindset. They’re a team. And I’ve said this to other people: They’re like a united front.

As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. I wish for you my child, a dream as brilliant as sunrise, and warm as it’s gentle rays. But most of all precious one, I dream for you, of many peaceful days.

Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. … Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. … I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They’ll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they’ll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.

Well, I don’t want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there’s no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don’t see why my children shouldn’t be afraid of me.

There are some family traditions I don’t want my children to carry on.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment… but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

I swear on my children’s lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone’s records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that’s my job as a forward.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

That scene in ‘The Purge’ where my kids, Mary’s kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of ‘If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?’

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

When I was married, I didn’t work. When I had my children, I didn’t work. But before that, I’d work for Diana Vreeland at ‘Harper’s Bazaar.’

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.’

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!