Children Quotes
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The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."
Ernie Chambers
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I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.
Andrew Solomon
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It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.
Ian Mcewan
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I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
Brian Andreas
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It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'
John Hurt
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I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not just simply a desire to be wicked. I think there are things that frighten us in life and, especially children, they want to understand and take it on or understand it so it frightens them less.
Angelina Jolie
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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.
Immanuel Kant
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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James Dobson
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.
Mark Haddon
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Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
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I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.
David Oyelowo
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
Andy Garcia
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In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.
Wole Soyinka
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There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
Elizabeth Esty
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I care about the children of Detroit.
John Engler
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The angel is actually the message himself. His appearance is the message that heaven is intensely concerned with us, and that God cares for us like a father for his children.
H. C. Moolenburgh
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My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
Amy Gerstler
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The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.
Heather O'Neill
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If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.
Russell M. Nelson
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I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.
Uwem Akpan
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Before they read words, children are reading pictures.
David Wiesner