Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
Tamsin Greig
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
Jack McBrayer
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
Oxana Chusovitina
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
Vidya Balan
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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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.
Wendy Craig
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
Ed O'Neill
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.
Ja Rule
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
Malorie Blackman
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper Fforde
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Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.
Teresa Medeiros
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.
Jack Roy
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe