Quotes About Children

It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, "Oh! I have a baby!" So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

You can never spend enough time with children.

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.