Marge Kennedy Quotes

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.

I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

Let all children come unto me.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?