Browsing Topic Best My Children Quotes

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

My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, ‘Abba, Father?’

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.

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

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I’d build self esteem first, and the house later.I’d teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

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

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

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

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

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

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

My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man’s sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

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

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.

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

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife … we only die once in our life. I’m dying every day when I get up in the morning.

~My children are my life … It’s not like I don’t have my own wants and and dreams anymore – it’s just that the kids come first.~

I want my children – I want Malia and Sasha – to understand that they’ve got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.

I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn’t become any more until I saw the baby… But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn’t think about my own pain… We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.

There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they’re growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day’s journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman’s terms so it’s really easy to grasp a principle.

My child was one of Nature’s Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture’s Lefties: it was no contest.

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn’t spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I’m having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize

My greatest hope is to be able to pass the same dreams and hopes and vision that I’ve been able to enjoy in my life, on to the next generation. Not just for my children – because with a mother like Michelle, my kids are going to be great – but for all children. There are too many children in this country for whom the American dream is so distant and the odds against them are so daunting.

My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn’t want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

At the end of the day I’m gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don’t think it’s gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year.

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it’s a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that’s just absurd. But I’ve lost it, I understand it.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

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.

I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at home and take care of children [and debate about hijab]. And there are other women who are saying you are criticizing my decision as a free liberated women to stay home and take care of my children.

It’s with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can’t relocate. I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.