My Children Quotes - Page 30

• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Children, Men, Would Be

  "Little Men".

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• Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

  Betty Smith

  Strength, Strong, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven”

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• Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Writing, Choices

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• This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Fighting, Men

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

  Barbara Mertz

  Children, Stupid, Believe

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• If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

  Mary Hoffman

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.

  Lady Gaga

  Mom, Children, Fall

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• Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west." "We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

  Melina Marchetta

  Prayer, Children, Voice

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• Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

  Jeannette Walls

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

  Leif Enger

  Children, War, World

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

  Robert Frost

  Children, Flower, Home

  Robert Frost (1992). “Selected Poems”, Gramercy

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• And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Doe, Raises

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.372, Library of Alexandria

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• I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Feelings, Want

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• Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Children, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Sylvie and Bruno”, p.181, Lewis Carroll

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• After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Angel, Sea

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.

  Greg Graffin

  Children, Motivation, Ideas

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• This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.

  Peter Lerangis

  Children, Long, Pork

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #3: The Sword Thief”, p.100, Scholastic Inc.

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• Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Children, Giving Up, Communication

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• Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.

  Christine Feehan

  Mother, Children, Night

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.118, Penguin

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• Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics.

  Ilona Andrews

  Stars, Children, Army

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• Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Parent, Lord

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

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