Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Edwards

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• I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Love
  • Job
  • Amazing

• I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
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  • Spy

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Great
  • Job

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
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• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dad

• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • She
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• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Job
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• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Job
  • Son

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Alone

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Important
  • Job

• When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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• It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Wife

• What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Woman
  • Sword

• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Opportunity

• My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Children
  • Job
  • Mother