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Children Quotes
"And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right."
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"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
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"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
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"I have a very open line of communication with both my children."
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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 are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
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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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"Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here."
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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 should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese."
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"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much."
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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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"Having children is what a woman is born for, really."
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"Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo."
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"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."
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"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."
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
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"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you."
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"Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!"
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"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me."
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"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
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"Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected."
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"Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren."
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"The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity."
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"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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"I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices."
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"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?"
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"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
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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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"For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while."
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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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"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children."
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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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"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without."
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"I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children."
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