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Children Quotes
"Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States."
39
"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."
33
"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
25
"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."
24
"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
24
"I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries."
12
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
11
"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
10
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
9
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
9
"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
9
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
9
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
8
"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
8
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
8
"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
8
"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."
7
"I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary."
7
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
7
"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."
7
"Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons."
7
"We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this."
7
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
6
"Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are."
6
"The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity."
6
"What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis."
6
"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS."
6
"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt."
6
"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."
6
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
6
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
6
"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
5
"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."
5
"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference."
5
"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
5
"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
5
"Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible."
5
"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
5
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
5
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