My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.
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Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'
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All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
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If I had my life to live over I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains.
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
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It's great to beat your goals -- and it's not that sports goals are bad, but this one was much better, ... This combines my two main passions in life, outside of my children.
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For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
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I'm afraid the visit of such a distinguished critic may cause my children to become conceited. To you they are wax, but to me, their creator, ...
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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Large families are going to go through financial trials, but it has really shaped my children. They learn how to share, how to communicate and how to compromise earlier.
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When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with'
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.
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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.
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Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.
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D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
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I lost a son. My children lost a brother. What about us? We followed the rules.
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Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up
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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. John 4
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3 John 1:4:
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
(NIV)
I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my [spiritual] children are living their lives in the Truth.
(AMP)
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
(KJV)
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