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Children Quotes

"I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV."

Peter O'Toole, Irish Actor

Children, Cinema, Theatre

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"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."

Shirley Bassey, Welsh Musician

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"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."

Luis Guzman, Puerto Rican Actor

Children, Want, Will

5

"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."

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Politician

Children, states, United

4

"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."

Francis Xavier, Portuguese Clergyman

4

"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."

Marlee Matlin, American Actress

Children, Writing

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"It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore."

Annie Lennox, Scottish Musician

Children, Example, World

1

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

Lenny Bruce, American Comedian

Children, School, Years

1

"I have four children and I have seven grandkids."

Dick Van Dyke, American Actor

"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."

Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress

"Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children."

Doris Day, American Actress

Children, Parents

"I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do."

Gloria Estefan, American Musician

Children, Example, Will

"Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives."

Kirstie Alley, American Actress

Children, Trying

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children."

Ryan Phillippe, American Actor

"I have a very open line of communication with both my children."

Gloria Estefan, American Musician

Children, Communication, Open

"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone."

Meg Tilly, American Actress

"I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television."

William Jackson, American Actor

Children, Television

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

Susan Smith, American Criminal

Children, Water

"I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids."

Leslie Caron, French Actress

"One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them to be."

Carol B. Hillman, American Author

"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."

Elle Macpherson, Australian Model

Children, Choices, Support

"I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children."

Alain Delon, French Actor

"Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday."

Faith Hill, American Musician

Children, Kids, Want

"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."

Ian Smith, British Prime Minister

"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better."

Lorraine Hansberry, American Playwright

"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Children, Present

"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."

Kent McCord, American Actor

Children, Example

"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."

Connie Sellecca, American Actress

Children, Support

"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."

Dennis Potter, British Dramatist

"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."

Sadie Frost, English Actress

Children, Wrong

"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

Children, Youth

"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."

Jackie Kennedy, American First Lady

Children, Magic, Man, Now

"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."

Laurel Lee, American Author

Children, Giving, Privilege, Want

"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."

Francois Fenelon, French Clergyman

Children, Nothing, Will

"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

Children, Games, Obvious, Play

"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."

Charles Buxton, English Public Servant

Children, Duty, First, May

"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."

Lady Bird Johnson, American First Lady

"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."

T. E. Lawrence, British Archaeologist

Children, Fault, Parents

"Having children really changes your priorities."

Cindy Crawford, American Model

Children, Priorities

"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children."

Walt Disney, American Cartoonist

Children, Waste

"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."

Paul Winchell, American Entertainer

"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

Children, Now, Schools, Yesterday

"I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children."

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

Children, College, Hair

"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."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference."

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian Entertainer

Children, Difference, Skin

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

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."

Alan Bennett, English Dramatist

Children, Parents

"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

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