Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure.
Black ElkNo matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-MaxwellShe was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them.
Rebecca WestIt 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 WhittakerIt is like children, you don't have a favourite [gold medal]
Steve RedgraveThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence DarrowThe beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney HarrisI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James ThurberRecommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van BeethovenAbout age thirty most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
Judy CarterThe car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
Arthur MillerAn author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
Benjamin DisraeliHumans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P J O'RourkeA 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 ShawI was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi AnnanFor the first time in a long time, there is hope in our region for a better future for us and our grandchildren.
Ariel SharonIn America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.
Robert BenchleyThe booger jokes. And my editor always takes out four letter words when I put then in the children's books. And the sex parts [on the difference between kids and adults books]
Meg CabotI want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.
Kylie BaxWe're legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the important thing [on her and Brad Pitt]
Angelina JolieWhy do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette ColbertThe only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean CaldwellWith so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.
Richard DawkinsChildren and fooles speake true
John LylyScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonChildren enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean De La BruyereWhere children are, there is the golden age.
NovalisHugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
Diana Princess Of WalesThe
singer's got a real edge to his voice. Sounds very. [on Manc band The Children]
Dawn ActonMost sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan SwiftThe 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 LeeSo long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora DuncanChildren are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter UstinovChildren love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure.
Erik EriksonIt's like your children, you have got to keep entertaining them [on his training technique]
Nigel WorthingtonLiterature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round
David LodgeThe worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: 'There is life, but it's not for you.'
John MortimerJonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.
Brian AlexanderThe 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 WilderMy breasts have gone saggy after three children so I wanted to perk them up and make them smaller [on having breast reduction surgery]
JordanChildren aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden NashReal 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 StalloneExperts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Roseanne BarrAdults 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 CanettiKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil GibranMost of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlinLive so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
H Jackson Brown JrMy stomach is all crinkly and my boobs, they're like the ears of a dog. That's what happened after having two children.
Kate WinsletAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalI don't want any more children at the moment. Maybe after I retire - but I don't want to make a second comeback! [on having a child and being a top female tennis player at the same time]
Sybille Bammer
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