Abraham Lincoln Quotes

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

Abraham Lincoln

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• Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Charity

• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Question
  • Human
  • Human being

• Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• I give the children education.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Children
  • Education
  • Give

• We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Children
  • Relationships

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Question
  • Technology

• In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cancer

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Question
  • Party

• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Always
  • Revolution

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Children
  • Love
  • Dad

• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Me
  • Attitude

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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  • Very
  • Beatles

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • You
  • Wall

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

  

  Natalie Maines
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  • Children
  • Worry

• I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank – yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids – howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.

  

  Becky Freeman
  • Children
  • Father
  • House

• Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Night
  • Stairs

• I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Rock
  • Star

• After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • Winning

• First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Interested
  • First Love
  • Last Love

• There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • Question
  • Involved