"Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public."

"I have very good executives and great children. They're very good."

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."

"The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted."

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy"

"The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted."

"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example."

"I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'"

"Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple of weeks of our relationship, before he had met the girls. they are my priority and I've always be sensitive to their feelings, but as the parent you can't allow your children to dictate what's right for you."

"I said I would get better with each baby, and I have."

"I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children."

"Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons."

"Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property."

"In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment."

"It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough."

"Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children."

"What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is."

"A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?"

"I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth."

"Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it."

"I'm not adopting a baby."

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."