Children Quotes
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the conditions of their labor, they're not supposed to care about pay. This is the kind of vision of the ideal teacher, which is again and again brought to the fore by reformers, the ideal teacher as someone who is passionately driven to serve children. Almost to the exclusion of a more pragmatic view of what the job actually entails.
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The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
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Many traumatized children and adults simply cannot describe what they are feeling because they cannot identify what their physical sensations mean. They may look furious but deny that they are angry; they may appear terrified but say that they are fine. Not being able to discern what is going on inside their bodies causes them to be out of touch with their needs, and they have trouble taking care of themselves, whether it involves eating the right amount at the right time or getting the sleep they need.
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If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.
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What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.
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If a way to a man’s heart was through his stomach, surely the way to a mother’s heart was through her children.
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The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.
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Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.
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It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.
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Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.
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Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.
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I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
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It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
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Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.
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Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
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When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
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Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
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The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.
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Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.
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We can hope to solve the problems of these children only if we correctly define what is going on with them and do more than developing new drugs to control them or trying to find “the” gene that is responsible for their “disease.” The challenge is to find ways to help them lead productive lives and, in so doing, save hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. That process starts with facing the facts.
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I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.
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These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.
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With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
