Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

Whoopi Goldberg

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• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Military

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

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

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Stop
  • Quality

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Thought

• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Children
  • Same

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

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

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Children
  • Want
  • Model

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • World
  • Children
  • Cancer

• Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Down
  • Generation

• 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.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationship

• 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Children
  • Fighting

• I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Past

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

  

  Jon Hamm
  • Great
  • Power
  • Respect

• If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Happy
  • Hair
  • Relaxed

• Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Children
  • Quality