Children Quotes
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I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.
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In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.
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The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
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Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.
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Man is the Child of his Environment
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The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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A child needs your love most when he deserves it least
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...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.
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There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.
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There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
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In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country
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The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
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I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
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Stay a child while you can be a child.
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I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.
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I do know that it’s hard to be the children of parents who are obsessed with each other.
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I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.
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All my films are all my children.
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It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
