Quotes About Children

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.