Patty Duke Quotes

Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.

Patty Duke

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• My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Language

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Never

• Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Death
  • Sex

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Children
  • Listening
  • End

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Live
  • Children

• One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Children
  • Change

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• Children are all foreigners.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Children
  • Foreigners

• I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.

  

  Melanie Roach
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Mother

• You know I've had work banned.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Work

• You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Think
  • Know
  • Intelligent

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Different
  • Competition
  • Sisterhood

• Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Children