Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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• My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

  

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• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

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

  

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

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

  

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• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

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• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

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• 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?

  

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• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

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• I'd love my children no matter what.

  

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• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

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• When you have girl children they torture you!

  

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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

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• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

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• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

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• There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

  

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• People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

  

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• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

  

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• South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.

  

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• A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Obedience
  • Claims