Quotes About Children

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.

Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.