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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

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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

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Try

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Reading

• I'm a big fan of my father.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Fan
  • Big

• I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Father
  • Responsibility

• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Mother

• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Children
  • Family
  • Outside

• The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from Stalin to Mr. Bean, creating chaos out of order, rather than order out of chaos.

  

  Vince Cable
  • House
  • Past
  • Chaos

• I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Father

• Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

  

  William Allen White
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Past

• 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Red

• I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

  

  Alison Weir
  • People
  • Writing
  • History

• Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Difficult
  • Inspiring
  • Motherhood

• She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Money
  • She
  • Speeches

• To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Children
  • Father
  • Past