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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."
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"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
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"If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them."
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"Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it."
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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
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"My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt."
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"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you."
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"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
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"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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"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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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."
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"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
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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."
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"Parents should be the most important examples for their children."
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"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference."
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"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."
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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."
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"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."
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"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever."
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"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."
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"To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare."
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"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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"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
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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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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
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"I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster."
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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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"A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one."
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"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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"The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters."
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"I have a very open line of communication with both my children."
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"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
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"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."
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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"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."
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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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