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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams

Mind, May, Give

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

Money, Rich, Until

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem

Marriage, Women, Men

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead

Today, Tomorrow, Problems

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

Mother, Father, American

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Him, Young

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead

Lots, Needing, Instead

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Russell Baker

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Work, Understand

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

Society, Credit, Fathers

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
P. J. O'Rourke

Tell, Stop, Growing

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball

Together, Two, Sometimes

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands

Revenge, Laughter

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Alice Walker

Start, Teaching, Sanity

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature, Human, Race

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

Women, Simple, Educated

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.
Jackie Kennedy

Nothing, Else, Matters

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
Hillary Clinton

Money, Job, Lost

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Coretta Scott King

Women, End, Voting

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz

God, Beautiful, Fact

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson

You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
Temple Grandin

Cannot, Keep, Engaged

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens

Nothing, Injustice, Felt

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler

Parents, Last, Earth

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Innocent, Duty, Mankind

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Fran Lebowitz

Smart, Child, Anyone

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz

Fun, Easy, Cheat

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler

Money, School, Give

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Small, Cannot, Child

Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal

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