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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."

"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"

"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

"Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving."

"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
Explore more quotes by John James Audubon

"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds."

"Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?"

"After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside."

"Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic."

"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish."

"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."

"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."
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