My Children Quotes - Page 24

• I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

  Dave Chappelle

  Children, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

  Hugo Chavez

  Daughter, Dream, Sweet

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• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Country, Children, Commitment

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Parenting, Important

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• I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

  Harlan Coben

  Children, Stress, Trying

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• I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

  Andy Cohen

  Summer, Children, Attitude

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days a week. Before there was Joan Collins's Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on 'Dynasty,' there was Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery on 'All My Children.'

  Andy Cohen

  Stars, Children, Hot

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

  Catherine Crier

  Dog, Children, Weather

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• My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

  Russell Crowe

  Movie, Children, Daddy

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• I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

  Rachel Cusk

  Children, Waiting, Annoying

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• I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Children, Afterlife, Actors

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• I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

  Lena Dunham

  Baby, Children, Want

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• I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

  Fred Durst

  Movie, Children, Years

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• I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

  Vera Farmiga

  Children, Husband, Father

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• Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Matter, Feeding

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• All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, Appreciate, Firsts

  The New York Post, August 13, 1974.

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• In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

  Michael J. Fox

  Wedding, Children, Dancing

  "Michael J. Fox Testifies About Parkinson's Disease". NBC Today Show with Katie Couric, archives.nbclearn.com. September 29, 1999.

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• My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

  Michael J. Fox

  Children, Wife, Birthright

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• I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Birthday, Children, Party

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• When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Mother, Children

  "DVF Up Close". Interview with Chuck Close, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 31, 2011.

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• I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

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• It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

  Emily Giffin

  Children, Weekend, Funny Things

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

  Amy Grant

  Children, People, Fascinating

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