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"You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future."
"They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction."
"I think the arts are very important for children growing up."
"I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent."
"Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'"
"When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university."
"Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life."
"Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?"
"Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000."
"Sometimes there is little regard for people's lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people."
"We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library."
"We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door."
"Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child."
"Let's ask their parents. And will those children point to their parents and tell us you really need to enforce the law against my parents? Because they know what they were doing when they caused me to break the law. I don't think we've thought through this very well. But there's a reason why in the president's DACA programs he didn't grant his unconstitutional executive amnesty to the parents of dreamers."
"You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it."
"As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful."
"I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose."
"Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children."
"I was an only child, eventually."
"My father felt that children should make their own way."
