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I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Adults under threat feel like children.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.