Children Quotes
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?
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Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.
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Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
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We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.
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Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.
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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.
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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught 'talking Indian' suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.
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'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
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Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
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The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.
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Many women are discovering that the motherhood instinct implies a responsibility to be certain children have dads - everyday, not far away; and some are aware that economic independence requires not holding on to her child as if it were her job.
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I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.
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I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.
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We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
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Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
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If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.
