Children Quotes
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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
Beverly Cleary
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At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
Al Pacino
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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
Donna Tartt
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I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.
Preity Zinta
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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
David Dinkins
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All children are manipulators.
Orson Scott Card
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
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We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.
Jenny Packham
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So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
Helen McCrory
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My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
Florence Henderson
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.
Marlee Matlin
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Children are to be respected and I respect them deeply. They've taught me an awful lot.
Fred Rogers
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Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
Walter Dean Myers
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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
Jonathan Kozol
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Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
Ronan Keating Boyzone
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I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.
James P. Carse
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'Rourke
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What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say
Quentin L. Cook