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• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one’s friends’ and relatives’ children.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Children, Funny

• It’s hard for children’s authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

  R. L. Stine

  Topics in Children, Success

  Tags in Hard

• Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.

  Gil Hodges

  Topics in Children, Work

• If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

  Queen Latifah

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Follow, Follower

• Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Self, Thinking

• It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

  Troy Vincent

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Men

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn’t God.

  Francis Hutcheson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Thing, Sure

• That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

  Frances Farmer

  Topics in Children

  Tags in People, Loved, Satisfied
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  Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Necessary, Teach

• I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

  Geronimo

  Topics in Children, God

• We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

  Germaine Greer

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Population, Explosion

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  Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

   

  Barbara Walters

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Parents

• Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Interesting

• I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Spanish

• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Animation

• All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn’t. They had big ears on them.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Children

  Tags in German

• All 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 R. Ford

  Topics in Children, Education

• Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Responsibility

• Given the choice, children who don’t want for anything will not save… We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Choice

• You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

  Topics in Children, Love