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

• 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!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• 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

• We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• 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

• I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• 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

• I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Men
  • 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

• It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Children
  • Mistake
  • Parent

• Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

  

  Mark Hamill

• There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Couple

• If civilization is to be bound up with material advancement, we must accept its inevitable consequence, loss of freedom in enact proportion to the forward march.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Freedom
  • Civilization
  • Consequence

• Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to guide us—to help us find that truth, not to tell us what it is.

  

  Andrew Kaufman
  • Truth
  • Pages
  • Within

• 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