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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
Thomas Szasz

I'll say one thing for television. It has taken children and educated them far beyond anything I was ever involved with as a child.
Bill Bixby

Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.
Brian Alexander

I've noticed that men and women react very differently to other people's children.

Women don't make a distinction. Kids are kids. They lavish as much attention and concern no matter whose child it is.
Steve Zahn

Children are generally pretty small, so you get passed all over the place [on why kids don't serve and volley]
Pat Rafter

It was the heaviest costume I've ever work - it was like carrying several small children around with me all the time [Queen Victoria costume]
Pauline Collins

'I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much c*** as I used to.'
Pamela Anderson

Children were chasing an idiot boy up the village street to the churchyard
Ellen Glasgow

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
George Bernard Shaw

The
singer's got a real edge to his voice. Sounds very. [on Manc band The Children]
Dawn Acton

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
Jack Handy

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognised their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
John Gibbon

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Susan Sarandon

God was preparing me, not for victory on court, but for running a foundation to enhance the lives of children with cancer.
Andrea Jagger

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud

Yesterday at The Oval had to be the most thrilling moment of my life... perhaps after the birth of my children. [on England Ashes win 2005]
Gladstone Small

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill Bryson

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman Mailer

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn

I would quite happily do it for nothing [on news he was the only presenter to get paid for the Charity fundraiser, Children in Need]
Terry Wogan

My breasts have gone saggy after three children so I wanted to perk them up and make them smaller [on having breast reduction surgery]
Jordan

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Bible

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight Moody

Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
Pat Conroy

About age thirty most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
Judy Carter

Looking after two young children keeps me on my toes and hopefully fit enough to cope with the jungle
Kimberley Davies

We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love! The Children of the revolution
Moulin Rouge

Today has been an extremely emotional day, and has made me realise just how important
the campaign is to protect children in war [Portugal 2004]
Anders Frisk

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P J O'Rourke

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

I've got three children at home. I just timed the wickets before they went to school so they could watch... To get the wicket of Sachin is always a great pleasure and to get him bat-pad on a turning wicket is a great joy.
Shaun Udal

But if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil.
John Arndt

Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...
Thomas Szasz

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, 'Never mind! I'll do it myself.'
Erma Bombeck

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen

'Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.'
Michael Jackson

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
Phyllis Schlafly



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