My Children Quotes - Page 34

• I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

  John Travolta

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Father, Years

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and .. so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mom, Children, Self

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• No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Land, Bird

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• My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.

  Celine Dion

  Children, Universe

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• Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

  John Ensign

  Children, Debt, Levels

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• I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

  Cecile Richards

  Children, Rights, Care

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• I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.

  Moshe Safdie

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

  Moshe Safdie, John Kettle (1987). “Beyond Habitat by 20 years”

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• It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program.

  Connie Smith

  Children, Thinking, Littles

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• But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?.

  Ernie Hudson

  Children, Jail, Giving

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• The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

  Elinor Smith

  Mother, Children, Needs

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• O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Flower, Taken

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.173, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Funny, Children, Humor

  1977 In Woman magazine, 9 Apr.

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• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, People, Missing

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• Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms.

  John Vianney

  Jesus, Children, Glasses

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• I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Children, People, Sick

  Source: collider.com

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• Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

  Kate Hudson

  Children, Lying, Naughty

  "Fool's Gold - Kate Hudson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  Victoria Beckham

  Children, Husband, Make Me Smile

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

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• All my films are all my children.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Film

  "Hayao Miyazaki: The world's greatest animator". www.cnn.com. August 12, 2011.

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• My children will not remember the words of wisdom I’ve passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you’ve given.  However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you’ve lived before them.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Children, Heart, Years

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• Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Children, Insomnia

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1993). “A stranger to heaven and earth: poems of Anna Akhmatova”, Shambhala Pubns

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• I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.

  Yvette Cooper

  Jobs, Children, Reading

  "Today" Programme, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk. May 2010.

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• In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

  Hugo Weaving

  Children, Real, Fighting

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• What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dog, Children, Heart

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• I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

  Liberty Ross

  Children, Loud, Felt

  "Kristen Stewart's 'humiliated' boyfriend Robert Pattinson moves out, wife of Rupert Sanders bemoans 'isolation' from husband". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2012.

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