My Children Quotes - Page 37

• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  Jamelia

  Children, Touching, Looks

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• I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Children, Winning, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

  Kent McCord

  Country, Children, Want

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• My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

  Diego Della Valle

  Children, Father, Real

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• Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

  Whitney M. Young

  Children, Mean, Pride

  "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1999– ).

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• Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

  Kate Braverman

  Children, Fire, Talking

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

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• If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Children, Islam, Praying

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Grandmother, Blow

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.213, Crown Archetype

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• I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

  Randy Pausch

  Beach, Children, Trying

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

  Patrick Roy

  Children, Nhl, Decision

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• I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

  Anne Tyler

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

  David Allan Coe

  Children, Hate, Teach

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Parenting, Single Child

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

  Parker Stevenson

  Children, Memories, Dad

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• I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.

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• The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Example, Legacy

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• Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air.

  Robin Williams

  Art, Children, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Daniel Hillard". "Mrs. Doubtfire", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Color, Long

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• Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

  William Wordsworth

  Hope, Children, Airy

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 3, l. 735

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• . . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.

  Mickey Rooney

  Children, Kids, Goats

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• [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Prayer, Children

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• Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Order, Bipolar

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• My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

  Alexander MacLaren

  Children, Father, Cry

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 228), 1895.

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• Those were my children being slaughtered.

  Don Burr

  Children, Aviation, Airline

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