Children Quotes - Page 33

• There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

  Juice Newton

  Thinking, People, Ceilings

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• Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Optimism, Simplicity, Wish

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• I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

  Stevie Nicks

  Decision, Musician, Want

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• I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

  Denise Van Outen

  Running, Thinking, Doors

  "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.

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• After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Firsts, Married, Born

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• Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

  Jared Polis

  School, Support, Effort

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• Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

  Lauren Potter

  Baby, Kids, People

  "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Football, Dream, Thinking

  "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Education, Teaching, Want

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• The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

  Randy Travis

  Education, Teacher, Giving

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• Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

  William C. Brown

  Errors, Names, Stupidity

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Bravery, Cynical

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• We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Taken, Independent, Thinking

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• I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

  Dan Quayle

  Real, Successful, Thinking

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• A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.

  Janet Reno

  Christian, Strong, School

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• There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

  Christian Louboutin

  Dream, Periods

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• I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

  Christian Louboutin

  Girl, Fashion, Shoes

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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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• The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

  Tia Mowry

  Mom, Baby, Sleep

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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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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• 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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• When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

  Sarah Hyland

  Summer, Kids, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

  Shirley Henderson

  Want, Protect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

  Shirley Henderson

  Stress, School, Opportunity

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

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• In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Art, Moving, Food Culture

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