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Children Quotes by John Mortimer
- The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
- I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in…
- All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
- Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which…
- I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.
- The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while…
- Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at…
- The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
More Children Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson