Children Quotes

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

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.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.