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.
BibleCome children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace ThackerayChildren have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn CoatsIf you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van BurenThere 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 MailerChildren really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
Ralph BusI 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 GandhiMy breasts have gone saggy after three children so I wanted to perk them up and make them smaller [on having breast reduction surgery]
JordanOur presenter should have made it clear that only some of the children on the show came via the website [on a drama group supplying 'viewers chosen' for an interview - more BBC Blue Peter scandal]
Richard DeverellLiterature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round
David LodgeWe want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora RussellFew 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 GibbonWomen'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 MeirIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheChildren are generally pretty small, so you get passed all over the place [on why kids don't serve and volley]
Pat RafterThe problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLintImagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter CochraneA loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.
Jim BunningActors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
Jeremy IronsMost of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlinI married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara BushI wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children.
Mary Wortley MontaguWhen you're the mother of small children, life becomes a holiday.
Kate WinsletThat's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them
George BestThe best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tyres.
Dorothy ParkerOn having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.
Liz HurleyThe
singer's got a real edge to his voice. Sounds very. [on Manc band The Children]
Dawn ActonI said... how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger AschamThe Pope lived his faith through constantly reaching out, demonstrating that we are all God's children.
Dave CampA quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey HepburnQuite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan QuayleThis grammar school boy is not going to take any lessons from a public school boy on children from less privileged backgrounds.
Michael HowardIt has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil GaimanI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James ThurberI question the right of that great Moloch, national sovereignty, to burn its children to save its pride. (Speaking against the Falklands War, 1982)
Sir Anthoney MeyerChildren always turn to the light.
David HareWe were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan BennettFew things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug LarsonAbout age thirty most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
Judy CarterChildren and fooles speake true
John LylyChildren are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John BradshawSometimes 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 DobsonYesterday 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 SmallChildren are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter UstinovMy music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor StravinskyMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconFor unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore RooseveltSome kind hearts have lived in every generation, but it is only within a few years that the older Christians have come into such perfect love and sympathy with children's needs as to set apart a Sunday for their especial benefit
Susan Teall PerryMy first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill BrysonAll God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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