My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

I have been driven demented in my career.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

This is the war I fear.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

You can divide my life into two.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

I cant think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.