Children Quotes
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A lot of black people think they never learned how to swim and turned out fine so they don’t need to teach their children. Obviously there are a lot of flaws with that argument, but if that’s being repeated to a whole generation – that swimming is not for you – then obviously it’s going to trickle down.
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We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.
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After a while most people with PTSD don’t spend a great deal of time or effort on dealing with the past—their problem is simply making it through the day. Even traumatized patients who are making real contributions in teaching, business, medicine, or the arts and who are successfully raising their children expend a lot more energy on the everyday tasks of living than do ordinary mortals.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
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One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
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Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
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Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of ‘filling up’ because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.
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The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.
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Not a movie to take your children to, nothing to show your ma: the little gougings, the wreck of the way they lived.
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I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them.
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Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.
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The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ballet classes. We used to talk about what we saw: the different ladies who would come in, all with their distinctive personalities.
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Nipples aren't killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There's so much violence in the world. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.
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From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
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It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
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I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.
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The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
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When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects of divorce can be alleviated. Divorce is always painful. But kids in a high-conflict marriage or low-conflict but contemptuous ones are often better off in the long run when the parent can disengage.
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Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
