Chris Van Hollen Quotes
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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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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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
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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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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I try to put as little stuff into my hair as I can, which tends to be the best for it.
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As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
