My Children Quotes - Page 36

• What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Children, Land, Giving

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Mother, Children

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• I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.

  Chris Christie

  Children, Father, School

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. July 05, 2015.

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• I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

  Mike Tyson

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  "Mike Tyson Teaches Earl Sweatshirt a Thing or Two About the Glory of The Notebook". Interview with Alex Beggs, www.vanityfair.com. December 17, 2014.

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• My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jobs, Children, Men

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

  Aerin Lauder

  Mother, Children, Book

  Interview with Michael Kors, aspenpeak-magazine.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Children, Taken, Keys

  "'An incredible container for transformation'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

  Minnie Pearl

  Jesus, Laughter, Children

  Minnie Pearl, Joan Dew (1981). “Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Kindness, Children, Rain

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439

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• The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Responsibility, Done

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• I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.

  Margaret Drabble

  Children, School, Flying

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• I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Giving Up, Self

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• My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

  Kevin Cramer

  Children, Years, Knowing

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• I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

  Jay Gould

  Sports, Horse, Children

  "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.

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• It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

  P. L. Travers

  Stars, Children, Moving

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In the forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they are good boys," I once heard a kind father say. "I talk to them very much, but do not like to beat my, children--the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought not elegantly expressed.

  Elihu Burritt

  Beautiful, Children, Father

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• I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Opportunity, America

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Wise, Children, May

  "The Tree That Fell To The West: Autobiography of a Sufi". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 2003.

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• I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

  Bobbejaan Schoepen

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Family, Happiness, Friends

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• In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.

  Angela of Foligno

  Family, Mother, Husband

  Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

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• Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.

  Lorene Cary

  Art, Children, Equality

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• That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'

  Lena Headey

  Children, Crazy, Kids

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• At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline NBC" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

  Isabel Allende

  Girl, Children, Grateful

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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