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• I’m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

  Dame Shirley Bassey

  Topics in Children

• Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

  Peter Fraser

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Population

• When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

  Ian MacKaye

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Find, Sound

• When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

  David E. Kelley

  Topics in Children

  Tags in People, Character

• When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

  Peter Fonda

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Thought

• Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

  Brian Harold May

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Hurt, Poor

• Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  Peter De Vries

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adult, Marriage

• A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

  Peter De Vries

  Topics in Children

• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  Ian Anderson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Music, Stealing

• I think the ’60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

  Peter Coyote

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Think, Thinking, Feelings

• Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

  David Boreanaz

  Topics in Children, Work

• I didn’t grow up as child actor.

  David Boreanaz

  Topics in Children

• Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

  David Antin

  Topics in Children

• Teach my children to love! They’ll learn to hate on their own.

  David Allan Coe

  Topics in Children, Love

• It’s fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth – in other words ‘we can only afford to have one or two children because we don’t earn enough’. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Topics in Children, Decision

  Tags in Afford, Kind

• All children have creative power.

  Brenda Ueland

  Topics in Children, Power

• I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I’ll walk away from show business. But I don’t want to walk away empty-handed.

  Dave Chappelle

  Topics in Business, Children

  Tags in Time

• The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

  Danny Bautista

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Time, Best

• Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.

  Brandy Norwood

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Day

• When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong – either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship – the impact on a child’s later life can be devastating.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Strong, Relationship, Damaged