Quotes containing word "children"

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Carol Bellamy
17 quotes about children
American Educator, Director
Born Wednesday 14 January 1942
Temple Grandin
9 quotes about children
American Author, Educator, Consultant
Born Friday 29 August 1947
Bill Cosby
9 quotes about children
American Author, Actor, Comedian, Musician, Educator, Activist, Producer
Born Monday 12 July 1937
Maurice Sendak
9 quotes about children
American Writer, Artist
Sunday 10 June 1928 - Tuesday 8 May 2012
Michael Jackson
8 quotes about children
American Musician
Friday 29 August 1958 - Thursday 25 June 2009
Mark Haddon
8 quotes about children
English Novelist, Poet
Born Wednesday 26 September 1962
Jenny McCarthy
7 quotes about children
American Author, Actress, Comedian, Activist, Model
Born Wednesday 1 November 1972
Joe Baca
6 quotes about children
American Politician
Born Thursday 23 January 1947
Erma Bombeck
8 quotes about children
American Journalist
Monday 21 February 1927 - Monday 22 April 1996
P. J. O'Rourke
6 quotes about children
American Writer, Author, Journalist, Comedian
Born Friday 14 November 1947
Donna Tartt
5 quotes about children
American Writer, Novelist, Author
Born Monday 23 December 1963
Fran Lebowitz
6 quotes about children
American Author, Journalist
Born Saturday 27 October 1951

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

Richard Dawkins

Words: disapprove, very, strongly, labelling, children, especially, young, something, Catholic, Protestant, Islamic
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I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves.

Leah Ward Sears

Words: think, people, need, commit, one, another, before, bringing, children, world, optimum, arrangement, take, anything, all, away, women, rear
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The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Antonio Porchia

Words: children, nobody, leads, hand, know
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Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Words: both, children, United, States, sacrificed, benefit, very, devoted
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Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

Bernice Weissbourd

Words: awareness, changed, every, act, children, piece, legislation, recognizes, part, families, within, grow, thrive
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Words: America, nation, fundamentally, ambivalent, about, children, often, afraid, frequently, punitive
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Donna Tartt

Words: children, think, back, really, child, know, other, lie, all, time
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But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

Ernie Hudson

Words: families, children, gives, purpose, being, protect, avoid, going, jail, looks, after, whos, wife
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

Madonna Ciccone

Words: Malawi, twice, year, two, children, adopted, lot, projects, check, look, after, sort, commitment, made, country, hundreds, thousands, orphaned, AIDS
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When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

Isaac Mizrahi

Words: people, ask, children, say, some
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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.

P. J. O'Rourke

Words: get, older, all, sorts, things, become, less, funny, once, one, children, any, cruelty, involving, becomes, far, amusing, mercy, ones, friends, relatives
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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joyce Maynard

Words: children, grow, parents, watch, see, lives, watching, tell, reach, sun, all
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot

Words: before, married, three, theories, about, raising, children, now
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We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

Norma McCorvey

Words: live, society, today, children, wanted, want, keep, child, after, theres, plenty, young, couples
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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Mark Sanford

Words: parents, meager, means, same, aspirations, children, other, poor, families, needs
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

Val Kilmer

Words: two, children, young, yet, all, know, really, inspire
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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Charles Spurgeon

Words: come, turning, point, road, turn, right, mayhap, children, will, way, left, generations, yet, unborn, curse, names, having, unfaithful, God, word
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

Words: parents, lend, children, experience, vicarious, memory, endow, immortality
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Maria Callas

Words: must, law, forcing, children, perform, early, age, wonderful, childhood, given, responsibility
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My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Steve Ballmer

Words: children, dimensions, poorly, behaved, other, least, dimension, kids, brainwashed, use, Google
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