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Children Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
- If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
- Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
- A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
- Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food,…
- Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
- The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
- Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
- Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
- Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
- Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
- Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
- There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting…
- Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
- Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough