Quotes About Children

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

Just taking the time to look at children and understand them is what everyone needs.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.