Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I'd love my children no matter what.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Love
  • Matter

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Children
  • Why
  • Play

• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Small
  • Sex

• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Together

• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Often

• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Children
  • Company
  • Others

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Smile

• As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Children
  • Father
  • Personality

• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Children
  • Family
  • Outside

• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationship

• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

  

  Amy Tan
  • Children
  • Character
  • American

• I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Children
  • Girl

• If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Children
  • Freedom

• There's a very long and consistent track record on the part of Hillary Clinton, and it's not been favorable to women, to children, to the cause of peace, justice, and a sustainable climate.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Long
  • Women
  • Children

• In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Equal Rights

• It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • May
  • Job

• But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Responsibility
  • Morning
  • Stupid

• History is not was, it is.

  

  William Faulkner
  • History

• This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Housework