Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Quotes
It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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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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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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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.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
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Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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Work-family conflicts-the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child-would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.
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It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.
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She really did change the game because we were not able to get a '55' defense. I thought the difference was her being able to extend the defense at full-court level.
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Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
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Open your hearts, open your hearts, then only you can enjoy yourself.
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It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
