Children Quotes - Page 29

• When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

  Marvin Harris

  Mother, Giving, Needs

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• All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

  Mike Huckabee

  Christian, Grateful, Sync

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• I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

  Robert Huber

  Firsts, February, Born

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• I enjoy helping young children succeed.

  William Hung

  Succeed, Helping, Young

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• Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.

  Janis Ian

  Real, People, Important

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• Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

  Johnny Isakson

  Knowing, America, Government

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• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Parent, Financial, Environment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Mother, Strong, Love For Her

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• I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Growing Up, People, Different

  "EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 26, 2009.

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Struggle

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

  Denise Juneau

  Teacher, Hard Work, Noble

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• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

  Andrea Jung

  Impact, Dollars, Needs

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• If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Want, Chance, Emotion

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• Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

  Etta James

  Attitude, Comedian, Littles

  "Etta James Says Beyonce Cracks Were A Joke", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  Rachel Johnson

  Teenager, Thinking, Maturity

  "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

  Toby Jones

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  Zola Jesus

  Emotional, Voice, Singing

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• It's about not rewarding your children with food, not always celebrating with food. I do think it's important to find other ways to comfort our children and ourselves, to work other ways of celebrating and rewarding.

  Stephanie Klein

  Thinking, Important, Comfort

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• Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

  Bill Keller

  Would Be, Journalism, Moments

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• A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

  Bob Keeshan

  Teenager, Years, Waiting

  "Bob Keeshan, Creator and Star of TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Is Dead at 76" by Richard Severo, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2004.

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• Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Purpose, Settling, Wanted

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• At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.

  Jenny McCarthy

  School, Kids, Doors

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• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  Kamisese Mara

  Clubs, Burden, Used

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• My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.

  Carlos Barrios

  Beautiful, Art, Sex

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• God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

  Elie Faure

  God, Jobs, Hair

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