Children Quotes
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No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.
Rick Riordan
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In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
Martin Jacques
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My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
Madeleine Albright
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I come from big families. My momma was the oldest of three and my daddy was one of six - and I've always loved children. They bring a lot of joy to the world and they make us adults look at things in a better way.
Josh Turner
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
Melville Fuller
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If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America.
Hillary Clinton
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There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
Brian Andreas
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
Dale Archer
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
Yair Lapid
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
Kamisese Mara
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I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts.
Jacqueline Bisset
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,With whom revenge is virtue.
Edward Young
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
Donny Osmond
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About magazines school children sell, which his wife buys without even looking at what she's buying.
Bill Engvall
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
Eddi Reader
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Tony Blair
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
Daniel Barenboim
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
Matthew Simpson
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I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields