"Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'"
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"You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home."
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"The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?""
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"I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others."
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"Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out."
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"All men know their children mean more than life."
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"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
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"Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house."
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"Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care."
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"A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful."
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"I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art."
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"The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel."
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"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager."
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"I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing."
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"Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning."
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"What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived"
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"The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite."
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"If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science."
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"We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos."
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"Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment — the kind most common among poor people in America — can do it."
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