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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.
Brenda Lee

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw

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

God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
Gerard De Nerval

All you can see is children waving coloured wands and you think 'well, that's not theatre' [on appearing in panto - I don't believe it!]
Richard Wilson

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.
Liz Hurley

For the first time in a long time, there is hope in our region for a better future for us and our grandchildren.
Ariel Sharon

If you're forced to the decision between death or surrendering your honour to live and raise your children, choose death. If you surrender your honour, you won't be fit to raise children.
John A Marshall

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Alice Walker

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir

It certainly seems contradictory of the [local] council to be encouraging parents to stop using their cars to take children to school but at the same time taking so long about the safe routes initiative.
Sally Whittaker

Every year up to three million children die from diseases that could be prevented by vaccines that are available now or could be in the near future.
Hilary Benn

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

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.
Joe Baca

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.
Quincy Jones

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

It's like your children, you have got to keep entertaining them [on his training technique]
Nigel Worthington

Children blessings seem, but torments are
Thomas Otway

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Tony Blair

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

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
Mary Wortley Montagu

When I first heard it i thought it was the most boring phrase in the entire world. Now I'm a real anorak about it. It means the future. It means my children's, children's children, and if you don't think seriously about that, then you don't deserve to live [on sustainable development]
Jonathan Dimbleby

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children.
Mary Wortley Montagu

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.
Sylvester Stallone

'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

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Anita Roddick

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

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
Dr James C Dobson

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald Dahl

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

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'
Sharon Stone

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore De Balzac

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.
Madonna

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

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

Being an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne Abbott

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis

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

Sometimes I'm mistaken for someone famous - myself. At other times children would probably prefer to see a rottweiler biting my foot.
Sir Anthony Eden

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
Miguel Ferrer

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.
Goldie Hawn

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

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel De Cervantes

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Maggie Gallagher



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