“Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. T...” — LZ Granderson Quote

“Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.”

“As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.”

“The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.”

“I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you do anything.”

“If a factory closes down here and pops up in China where they don't have access to clean technology, clean energy, then the world is not better off.”

“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”