Children Quotes - Page 26

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hovering, Single Parent, Inspirational Parenting

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

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• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  Barbra Streisand

  Taught, Kind, Wild Child

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• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, Two, Adults

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

  Joe Namath

  Thinking, Should Have, Speak

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• There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

  Murray Kempton

  Men, Earth, Cages

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

  Roddy Doyle

  Meetings, Knows

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• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  David Chase

  Kids, Thinking, Stories

  "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Mary, Reverence

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• Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

  Jon Jones

  Peace, Our Children, Greatest Gifts

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• God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

  Israel Shenker

  Blessing, Support, Problem

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• ...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

  Carol Bellamy

  Humanity, Interest, Serving

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Parenting, Important, Amazing Parents

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• Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Three, Research, Normal

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.185, Random House

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• There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.

  Vasily Grossman

  Sadness, Blood, People

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• The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

  June Jordan

  Father, Kids, Car

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.159, Basic Books

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• Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

  Gautama Buddha

  Growing Up, Worry, Parent

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• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  Irena Sendler

  Secret, Today, Messengers

  Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" by Dennis Hevesi, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.

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• What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

  Rosie Batty

  People, Domestic Violence, Want

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• I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.

  Dwight Henry

  Kids, Sacrifice, Careers

  "Dwight Henry Explains How His Hurricane Katrina Experience Made Him Perfect For 'Beasts Of The Southern Wild'". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It's interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That's how it all starts - someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.

  Donte Stallworth

  Football, School, College

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• I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

  Katherine Helmond

  Reading, Drawing, Important

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• I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

  Dwight Howard

  Growing Up, Father, Upset

  "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

  Katherine Helmond

  Fascination, Hearing, Grew Up

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• I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.

  Katherine Helmond

  Growing Up, Husband, Choices

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