Children Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Kids, Mind, Adults

  "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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• In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

  Herman Koch

  Parent, Way, Curious

  "'The Dinner' Asks: What Will You Do To Protect Your Family?". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.capeandislands.org. February 18, 2013.

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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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• I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

  Anna Kournikova

  Want, My Own

  "Anna Kournikova And Enrique Iglesias Welcome Twins In Secret" by Cole Delbyck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2017.

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• Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

  Bob Keeshan

  Real, Dinner, News

  "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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• I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.

  Bob Keeshan

  Nice, Good Friend, Yesterday

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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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• In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

  Delia Ephron

  Nature, Age Difference, Differences

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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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• Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.

  Bob Seger

  Baby, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Song: Rock and Roll Never Forgets, Album: Night Moves

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• He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Wall, Feelings, Castles

  Song: Fire In The Sky

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• Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of the aliens' report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... that emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve-while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space.

  Nigel Calder

  Mother, Running, Stars

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• In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Party, People, Needs

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• I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Running, Country, President

  Formal Announcement of Candidacy, Cleveland City Council Chambers, p2004.org. October 13, 2003.

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• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Tough Times, Suffering

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• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  Hans Kung

  Wife, Temptation, Would Be

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• This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

  John Kasich

  Country, Gentleman, President

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• In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

  Leon Kass

  Two, Cloning, Contrast

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• I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

  Mindy Kaling

  Law, Parent, Care

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• I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Kids, Three

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• I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.

  Peter Krause

  Eye, Thinking, People

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

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• I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

  Peter Krause

  Home, Thinking, Iron

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

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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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