"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you."

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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

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"The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be."

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"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side."

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"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."

Damon Wayans, American Comedian

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"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."

Shirley Jones, American Actress

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"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."

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Antoinette Perry, American Actress

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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."

"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

"The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be."

"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."

"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

"No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side."

"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."

"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."

"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."

"Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!"

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"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see."

"Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful."

"I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy."