I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, 'Never mind! I'll do it myself.'
Erma BombeckEvery 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 SzaszWhat is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie KennedyThe 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 CabotIt 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 MoodyWe're legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the important thing [on her and Brad Pitt]
Angelina JolieJonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.
Brian AlexanderPeople with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthyThe children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
Pat ConroyAll my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald FordSometimes 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 DobsonTruly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children
Margaret OliphantSome children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald DahlAll of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.
Joe BacaChildren require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne SullivanA loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.
Jim BunningI 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 WoganA house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace MannHomosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
Sam AustinAll of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma BombeckAll God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran LebowitzI'm looking forward to trying new things, seeing a little more of my children and finally setting a date for my wedding to Dina next year.
Todd CartyChildren were chasing an idiot boy up the village street to the churchyard
Ellen GlasgowParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovBeing an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne AbbottI feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it [raise their children] all the time.
Eric BraedenThe 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 WilderChildren are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John BradshawParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster FullerThose 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.
AristotleFor 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 RooseveltThe stampede to collect Beanie Babies is the latest twist in the toy industries plot to turn children into avaricious monsters and adults into clawing harpies!
Beth VargoMy first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill BrysonMen are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William PennAdults 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 CanettiIt has also contained come of the very best, most accessible writing for children, by writers who seldom get the acknowledgement they deserve [on Fantasy genre]
Terry PratchettI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James ThurberI was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie AntoinetteNever raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert OrbenI don't want children lookin' at me like some kind of gangster. I want them to see someone who says: 'don't be promiscuous, have safe sex, don't do drugs and definitely don't carry guns.'
Mary J BligeI 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 BammerMy biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.
Henry DarrowChildren generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them
John LockeChildren are the keys of paradise.
Eric HofferThe thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert HooverNo matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men
John Alfred LangfordIt's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play
Nastassja KinskiTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottFor the first time in a long time, there is hope in our region for a better future for us and our grandchildren.
Ariel SharonYour children need your presence more than your presents.
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