My Children Quotes - Page 14

• I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

  George Mason

  Retirement, Children, Comfort

  Letter to a member of the Brent family, October 2, 1778.

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• Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Children, Writing

  People Magazine, October 12, 1987.

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• I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Gratitude, Children

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.48

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• I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Husband, Children, Self

  "Claudia Schiffer Reaches Kid Limit" (from the National Ledger),

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• I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Rajeev Masand, October 22, 2007.

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• It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Running, Children, Want

  "What I've Learned: Carolyn Murphy" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

  Derek Luke

  Children, Greatest Fear, Parent

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.

  Ruby Dee

  Morning, Children, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

  Snoop Dogg

  Children, Father, Men

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

  Donatella Versace

  Children, People, Earth

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

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• I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  Theobald of Bec

  Children, Men, Wife

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• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  Yochai Benkler

  New York, Children, Village

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• My children were the center of my life.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Children

  "'We Will Retool…and Come at It from a Different Direction'–Cindy Sheehan Says She Will Return After Stepping Back as Antiwar Leader". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 30, 2007.

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• I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

  Alexandra Wentworth

  Children, Blood, Greek

  "Ali Wentworth Talks ‘Ali In Wonderland,’ Life With George Stephanopoulos" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

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• Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

  Robert K. Massie

  Girl, Daughter, Children

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• Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Mom, Children

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Taken, Thinking

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• To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Hurt, Children, Worry

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• The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Children, Essence

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• . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

  Ruth Benedict

  Children, Hands, Left Hand

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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• I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

  Madeleine Albright

  Morning, Children, Grateful

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.

  Julio Iglesias

  Children, Careers, Certain

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• I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

  William Cobbett

  Sweet, Children, Father

  "The Autobiography of William Cobbett: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament". Book by William Cobbett, 1933.

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• I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at least awakened me to believe in the possibility that I may yet make some impression with my "light" - my "dews" - my "breezes" - my bloom and freshness, - no one of which qualities has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

  John Constable

  Children, Believe, Light

  Letter to C.R. Leslie (March 1833), from "The Letters of John Constable, R.A. to C. R. Leslie, R.A. 1826-1837", p. 104, 1931.

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