Edward Bunker Quotes

Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

Edward Bunker

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• Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Help

• In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Children
  • Done
  • Worry

• Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Friends
  • Hope
  • Dating

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

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

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Small
  • Sex

• I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

  

  Indira Varma
  • Children
  • Why
  • Mother

• It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Story
  • Resolution

• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Children

• As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • People
  • Long
  • Hope

• Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

  

  John Adams
  • Children
  • Freedom

• So when you say it's gonna happen now.Well when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long. And all my hope is gone!

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Long
  • Hope

• The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Live
  • Hope

• What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Up
  • Children
  • Legacy

• It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Future

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Time
  • Children
  • Husband

• Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Imagination
  • Empathy

• Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Time
  • Black
  • Space

• I was hit by a car when I was 13, and the rumour was immediately that I had been playing chicken with the car with my best friend Kenny in front of the Nutmeg Pantry, which was the only shop in Sharon. In fact, the guy who hit me was inebriated.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Car

• Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Children
  • Hope