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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."
49
"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
37
"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."
35
"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
32
"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."
19
"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
18
"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
17
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
16
"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
16
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
15
"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."
14
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
14
"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt."
14
"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference."
13
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
13
"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."
13
"If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become."
13
"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."
13
"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
12
"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."
12
"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
12
"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
12
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
12
"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."
11
"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
11
"Having children really changes your priorities."
11
"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
11
"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."
11
"What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis."
11
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."
11
"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."
11
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
11
"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."
11
"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever."
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