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Children Quotes


"My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful."


"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."


"I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated."


"I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own."


"The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population."


"We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children."


"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."


"You help families focus on the future through their children."


"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."


"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."


"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."


"When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child."


"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next."


"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up."


"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow."


"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand."


"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."


"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."


"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"Having children really changes your priorities."


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


"The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious."


"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."


"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."


"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."


"Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished."


"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."


"The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers."


"Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren."


"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters."


"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."


"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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