Children Quotes
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Fran Lebowitz
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Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
Carl Andre
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'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.
Grace Slick Starship
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The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
Ben Bernanke
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Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
Jonathan Kozol
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Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
Ellen Burstyn
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A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.
Betty Ford
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Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.
Chevy Chase
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Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
Deborah Norville
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
Jimmy Buffett
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Between all four children and my husband, I don't get to do much. But when I am in England, I cook and I garden, and it's much more calming and relaxed.
Lisa Marie Presley
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
Rachel Weisz
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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.
Alistair Cooke
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
Mal Peet
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I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
Blythe Danner
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I'm a child of the 70's. R&B to me is Curtis Mayfield. Then a transition came in and I was part of the Hip Hop era when Sugar and Kane came out. That was a good transition for me. Then now R&B is Hip Hop and Hip Hop is R&B.
D'wayne Wiggins
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
Paloma Faith
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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
Beverly Sills
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
Alison Lurie
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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
Jonathan Kozol
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Paul Weyrich
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The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.
John Hench
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A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.
Erma Bombeck