My Children Quotes - Page 40

• I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

  George Foreman

  Children, Heart, Looks

  "George Foreman on Fatherhood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

  John Keats

  Nature, Stars, Children

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 403

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• My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Children, Support

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• Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Men, Joy

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• What keeps me going is my children.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Remember, Sometimes

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• I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

  Ken Burns

  Daughter, Children, Brooklyn Bridge

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• To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

  Roman Abramovich

  Children, Differences, Childhood

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Lying, Two

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

  Joe Namath

  Children, Thinking, Should Have

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• My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Children, Lefties

  "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.

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• My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Men, Light

  "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.

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• I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Children, Hate, Guardian

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Children, Writing, Small Child

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Memories, Children, Father

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

  Scott McNealy

  Brother, Children, Father

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• I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

  George Hamilton

  Children, Love You, Phrases

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

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• I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Children, Gay, Thinking

  Rosie O'Donnell: Being a Gay Mom, abcnews.go.com. March 14.

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• Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

  Lauren Holly

  Children, Thank God, Littles

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• Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Mother, Children, Stories

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• For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Children

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• I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

  Boris Becker

  Children, Raised

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• Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.

  Elle Macpherson

  Children, Reading, Feel Better

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• I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

  Tori Spelling

  Children, Want, Great Relationship

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