Your Children Quotes - Page 33

• The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Happiness, Children, Gold

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• Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Memories, Vacation

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sarcastic, Children, Funny Life

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.153, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

  Cat Cora

  Children, Believe, Home

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• When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Children, Profound

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• I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Wings, Giving

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• By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Information, Difficult

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• Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

  Epictetus

  Children, Lost Love, Wife

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• When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

  William Feather

  Children, Lying, Moral

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• I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

  Dawn French

  Children, War, Thinking

  "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

  Andy Garcia

  Children, Responsibility, Choices

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". Interview with Mark Morrison, In Style magazine, www.oocities.org. January 1999.

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• I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

  Lee Haney

  Sports, Children, Kids

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• Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mom, Mother, Children

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from May 13, 2015

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• Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  R. Kelly

  Children, Mistake, Responsibility

  "Man in the mirror". Interview with Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2004.

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• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

  Jessica Lange

  Motivational, Family, Mom

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• So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Home, Who I Am

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• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Sitting, Stories

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Relationship, Children, Rain

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Literature, Serious

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Waiting, Feelings

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• You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

  Josh McDowell

  Children, Answers, Arms

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