Children Quotes
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While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
Haim Ginott
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My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.
Gena Lee Nolin
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The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn Monroe
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We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
Amy Chua
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I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
Donatella Versace
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I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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'The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.'
Donald Barthelme
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The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
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All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
Patricia Polacco
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I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.
Jerry Lewis
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne Tyler
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In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley
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I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot
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Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
Faith Hill
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
Marian Wright Edelman
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When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
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I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.
Forest Whitaker
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My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.
Peter Abrahams
