Michael Jackson Quotes
Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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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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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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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.
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I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.
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In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
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Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
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Work hard at doing what you feel is right. Don't be scared!
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The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
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Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.
