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Children Quotes
"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."
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"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."
65
"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
49
"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
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"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."
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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
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"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."
26
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
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."
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"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
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"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."
22
"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt."
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"The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters."
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"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
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"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference."
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"A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one."
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"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."
20
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
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"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever."
20
"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."
20
"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."
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"What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis."
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"Parents should be the most important examples for their children."
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"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
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"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
18
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
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"If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become."
18
"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
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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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"Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children."
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"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."
17
"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."
17
"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."
17
"Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution."
17
"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
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