All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak and not always with my advance approval and I expect that to continue in the future.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining but are also I hope well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Animals are sentient intelligent perceptive funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet at the end of a long weekend with them the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things but mostly it was funny.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects rather an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

As I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

I like children - fried.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

Everybody knows how to raise children except the people who have them.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.