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"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
Connie Sellecca
"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
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"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."
Pierre Salinger
"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."
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"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
Francois Fenelon
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
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"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
Charles Buxton
"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
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"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."
Charles Manson
"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."
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"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."
Eberhard Arnold
"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."
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"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
Dora Russell
"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
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"We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment."
David Satcher
"We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment."
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"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all."
Max von Sydow
"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all."
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"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will."
Susan Smith
"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will."
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"Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again."
W. C. Fields
"Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again."
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"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."
Donald C. Medeiros
"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."
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"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
Sting
"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
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"The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me."
Kate Winslet
"The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
P. J. O'Rourke
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
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"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."
Roger Mahony
"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."
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"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."
Susan Oliver
"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."
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"The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future."
Ginny B. Waite
"The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future."
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"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
Princess Diana
"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
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"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."
George Whitefield
"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."
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"Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!"
Jeanne Calment
"Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!"
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"I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children."
Lucille Ball
"I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children."
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"You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road."
John Deacon
"You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Martin Lewis Perl
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."
Charles Darwin
"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children."
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"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."
Elle Macpherson
"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."
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"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."
Laurel Lee
"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."
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"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
Hugh Mackay
"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
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"If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough."
Eric Braeden
"If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough."
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"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
Brian May
"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
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"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."
Shirley Jones
"After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise."
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"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
Doug Larson
"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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"All my children inherited perfect pitch."
Chevy Chase
"All my children inherited perfect pitch."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
Steven Pinker
"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"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."
Deidre Hall
"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."
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"The laws of this world are for children."
Frank Wedekind
"The laws of this world are for children."
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"Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword."
Calista Flockhart
"Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword."
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"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
Norton Juster
"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
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"He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake."
Stephen King
"He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake."
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"Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"
Rita Rudner
"Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"
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"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone."
Meg Tilly
"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone."
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"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."
Carol B. Hillman
"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."
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"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better."
Lorraine Hansberry
"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better."
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"I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children."
Lindsay Lohan
"I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children."
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"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."
Peter Ustinov
"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."
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"Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework."
Lawrence Kutner
"Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework."
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"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
Hugh Mackay
"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
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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."
Mary Pipher
"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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"Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on."
Jo Brand
"Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on."
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"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."
Damon Wayans
"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."
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