My Children Quotes - Page 21

• You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, People, Analogies

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Historically, girls have not been encouraged to be scientists, to be explorers, and there's a social kind of constraint, of course. Having the responsibility, a disproportionate part of the responsibility, for caring for families, caring for children. I know this challenge from firsthand experience because I have three children and four grandsons.And some of the time I have spent as a scientist and as an explorer has meant choosing to not be with my children and grandchildren as much as I might otherwise have done had I not been a scientist, an explorer.

  Sylvia Earle

  Girl, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.wildriverreview.co

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• I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.

  Charlize Theron

  Children, Humanity, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I almost feel like there's some kind of connection that I'm having trouble putting in to words, in the same sense that I'm learning things from my children still. I think, just like any relationship, if I choose to become twisted and bitter it can be a source of distress or discomfort. But I think I've come to terms with the fact that I would prefer to see it as a gift. And I would prefer to see it as something that empowers me rather than something that diminishes me in some way.

  DJ Shadow

  Children, Thinking, Empowering

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.'

  Femi Kuti

  Children, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• There is a tension between our desire to get our kids to turn out a particular way versus letting them develop to be their own person. If there were a pill that would make my child turn out the way I wanted, I'm not sure I'd take it.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Kids, Desire

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing I am shameful of or anything else in my novels. They are my children and I'm happy to speak about my children.

  Joseph Boyden

  Children, Writing, Speak

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• My children are very blessed.... That's why I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in this position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Country, Children

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I played Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music and everybody's like, "Well she wouldn't have been this and that, she shouldn't be playing it." Well I'm going to do it and I did it. I've been warned my entire life and I've persisted and that's what I hope my children will do as well.

  Audra McDonald

  Mother, Children, Sound Of Music

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My books are like my children. I love them all.

  Marie Bradby

  Children, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The one concession I've made as I've gotten older is that my children are now adults and they're in their twenties and thirties and so I'm careful about how I write about them. I may write about them as a child, but I'm not going to write about their current struggles because they're adults and they can do it for themselves. I want to give them some space in a way I didn't when they were younger.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Children, Struggle, Writing

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• If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

  Luis Guzman

  Children, Want, Teach

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• I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Writing, Holiday

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• When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Prayer, Children, Growing Up

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• I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I'm blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I'm not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do.

  Michael Ealy

  Children, Blessed, Thinking

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• The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

  Richard Louv

  Meaningful, Nature, Children

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.316, Algonquin Books

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• To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

  Neneh Cherry

  Peace, Children, Special

  Song: Woman, Album: Man

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• I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

  Corey Feldman

  Children, Safety, Looks

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• I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Watches, Watch Movie

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• I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

  Leslie Banks

  Hurt, Children, Home

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• There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Passion, Thinking

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• I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.

  Cindy Margolis

  Mother, Children, Blessed

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• We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

  Ricky Gervais

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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