"One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a l..."
"One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money."
"Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own."
"All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen."
"You've seen 'Shrek,' right? It's a children's movie, but there are adult jokes in there if you're paying attention and you're old enough to get it. That's what we try to do with the New Day."
"Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates."
"My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron."
"Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about."
"The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go."
"I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children."
"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."
"One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!"
"I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture."
"I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour."
"I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category."
"A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return."
"I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important."
"I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom."
"Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family."
"Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies."
"Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well."
"We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases."
"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
"We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time."
"Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults."
"My children are largely unimpressed with what I do for a living. I wouldn't have it any other way."
