Children Quotes
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
W. H. Auden
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That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
Toby Stephens
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Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
Alex Kingston
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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
William Shenstone
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I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.
George Hamilton
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.
David Farland
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Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
Robin LaFevers
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It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.
Eda LeShan
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
bell hooks
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If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
Elizabeth Hawes
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I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.
Carolyn Murphy
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I'm fortunate to be in a position to support nonprofits that align with my personal priorities, which include women's health issues, cancer research, environmental concerns, and education for women and children domestically and globally.
Channing Dungey
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My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.
Stephen Sondheim
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What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.
Paul Auster
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Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.
Ray Bradbury
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I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.
Claudia Schiffer
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My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
Vladimir Putin
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Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
Louise Brown
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Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.
Harry S Truman
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The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don't always look the same is a huge honour for me.
Jodie Whittaker
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The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.
Claire Messud
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I would love more children, but no. I'm very lucky to have had my two.
Darcey Bussell