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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

Carol Bellamy

Words: importantly, perhaps, children, learn, about, rights, share, knowledge, other, nations, identify, problems, establish, might, work, together, address
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On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.

Rocco Buttiglione

Words: other, hand, think, family, traditional, fundamental, social, role, children, born, investment, greatest, country, make, benefits
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Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

Stanislav Grof

Words: instances, exist, small, children, seem, remember, describe, previous, life, another, body, place, other, people, memories, emerge, usually, shortly, after, begin, talk
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That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Rocco Buttiglione

Words: possible, fact, legislation, politics, graduate, advantages, children, give, less
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We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

Paul Tsongas

Words: continuum, just, reach, back, ancestors, fundamental, values, guardians, legacy, must, ahead, children, sense, sacredness, reaching
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