Karen Civil Quotes
I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.
Quotes to Explore
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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Where there is love there is life.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.
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Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.
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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing bulletproof vests from the federal government. Two sets of applications, two different sets of personnel to approve those applications.
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I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.
