Children Quotes
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
Felix Dennis
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
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Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
W. S. Merwin
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I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.
Wen Jiabao
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
Caroll Spinney
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My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.
T. D. Jakes
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.
David Anders
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
Patricia Polacco
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I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
Emmanuelle Beart
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
Naomi Wolf
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
Lucille Clifton
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
Kailash Satyarthi
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
Nancy Garden
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. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
Harold B. Lee
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We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.
Bernard Werber
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I am available for children's parties, by the way.
Bill Hicks
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We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Charles Kennedy
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If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.
Jakob Bohme
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I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
Marisa Tomei
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For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
Arthur Rackham
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
Enid Blyton
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Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
April Winchell
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Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.
Marian Burros