An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
Benjamin DisraeliI hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Anita RoddickThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence DarrowThe thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert HooverI want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.
Kylie BaxWhile the Internet holds many potential opportunities for children, there is also a tremendous danger of online predators.
Bob GoodlatteI'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 BixbyI have never done children's TV, mostly because I do not like being a patronising and cheesy presenter.
Dani BehrFew things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug LarsonEvery place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
Michael D BarnesLet your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm ForbesEvery 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 BennIt is a statue that draws children as hot toast does butter. [on Bobby Charlton statue]
Linda CharltonWith 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 DawkinsI 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 AntoinetteIt 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 WalkerI've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women
John WayneI'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, 'Never mind! I'll do it myself.'
Erma BombeckOur bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint AugustineThere are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.
Joyce JillsonI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James ThurberYesterday 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 SmallWomen'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 MeirFew 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 GibbonChildren enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean De La BruyereAbsolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
Roy ClarkIt's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play
Nastassja KinskiThat's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them
George BestChildren have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves
Ernest DimnetParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovChildren were chasing an idiot boy up the village street to the churchyard
Ellen GlasgowWhat 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 KennedyChildren really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
Ralph BusLiterature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round
David LodgeIf necessary, I would go out on the streets and beg rather than send them [his children] to the school next to where I live.
Oliver LetwinOn having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.
Liz HurleyHomosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
Sam AustinGod is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
Gerard De NervalMen are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William PennIt is like children, you don't have a favourite [gold medal]
Steve RedgraveParents 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 FullerI'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 ZahnIt is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare PaveseWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftOur children don't understand how comfortable we are. My son will say 'Dad, can we really afford that?'
Bruce ChizenWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert Keith ChestertonLive so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
H Jackson Brown JrNow, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie KennedyWhat is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock
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