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Children Quotes
"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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"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."
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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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"We children learned responsibility automatically."
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"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."
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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
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"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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"I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary."
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"Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio."
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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."
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"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
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"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children."
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"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment."
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"Having children really changes your priorities."
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"Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
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"There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial."
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"I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children."
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"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up."
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"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"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."
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"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."
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"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
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"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
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"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."
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"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children."
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"Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are."
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"The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers."
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"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."
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"Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible."
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"I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in."
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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
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"The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious."
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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."
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"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."
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"Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children."
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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
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