Al Sharpton Quotes
I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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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.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.
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Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
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There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.
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I know you want it to stay pleasant around here, but - there are so many things … that are so much better. Like silly, or sexy, or dangerous … or brief. And every one of those things is in you all the time, if you just have the guts to look for them.
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He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give her something, charity for instance.
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I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.
