Children Quotes
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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
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We are the world, we are the children.
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I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.
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I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and there were frogs and turtles. You go back there and it's dead now. The forest you went to, now there are bulldozers, now it's a strip mall. These experiences of beauty followed by grief affect us more than learning that CO2 levels are now 400 parts per million.
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
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Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.
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I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
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In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
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Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?
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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
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We're all God's children.
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I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
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We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
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My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.
