My Children Quotes - Page 34

• Every penny from Gossip Girl, my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

  Kelly Rutherford

  Girl, Children, Fighting

  "Kelly Rutherford Says She's Broke From Custody Battle: Everything 'Spent Fighting for My Children'" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. April 26, 2013.

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• A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

  Hiromi

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

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• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

  Cornelia Funke

  Brother, Children, Book

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• I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Horse, Children, Animal

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• The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Children, Ants, Should

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• How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

  Brian Herbert

  Children, Men, Measure Of A Man

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• Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Choices, Parent

  "Mr Blair opts out". The Guardian, December 2, 1994.

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• If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it's sort of a magpie aesthetic - I just go and pick up whatever is around. If you think about it, the children were there, so I took pictures of my children. It's not that I'm interested in children that much or photographing them - it's just that they were there.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Thinking, Photographer

  "Dog Bone Prints: Sally Mann". Art in the Twenty-First Century Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.

  Sally Mann

  Spiritual, Children, Spring

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• Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.

  Kate Snow

  Children, Teaching, Kids

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• He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Friendship, Children, Father

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• Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

  John Vianney

  Children, Hate, Pride

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• For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?

  Malcolm X

  Children, Hate, Teaching

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.248, Ballantine Books

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• Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Brother, Sex

  "Santorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’". Santorum's Philadelphia Inquirer column, thinkprogress.org. May 22, 2008.

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• I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along the way I must have done something right.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Grateful, Believe

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• Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Taken, Rights

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.81, ASCD

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• This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Letting Go, Children

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.120

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

  Sidney Lanier

  Music, Children, Hands

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• I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.

  Gwen Stefani

  Children, Vanity, Accepting

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• When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Motivational, Summer, Country

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• I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Children, Remember

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