Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."
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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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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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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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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
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After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.
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We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
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Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."
