Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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I give the children education.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.
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I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.
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Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
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How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
