My children Quotes · Page 8

I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have…

— Gwen Stefani

For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty…

— Ingrid Betancourt

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

— Marco Pierre White

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I…

— Jeremy Irons

When I was young, my father told me I was living in a dream world. At the time, he was trying to…

— Will Kimbrough

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But…

— Steve Berry

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

— Maria Canals Barrera

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain…

— Sting

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

— Ken Kercheval

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I…

— Shefali Tsabary

I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells…

— Joyce Maynard

Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children…

— Barack Obama

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son]…

— Kate Winslet

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to…

— Nikki Sixx

I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with…

— Josemaria Escriva

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children...

— Michele Bachmann

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know…

— Philip K. Dick

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.

— Columba Bush

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

— William Wordsworth

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened…

— Shefali Tsabary

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

— Rachel Cusk

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important…

— Andrew Card

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They…

— Patti Smith

We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When…

— Parker J. Palmer

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my…

— Henry David Thoreau