Our Children Quotes - Page 5

• This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers - Geoffrey Rush" by James Ashwood, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Children, Giving, World

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• If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

  John Gresham Machen

  Education, Children, Giving

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• There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

  Richie Sambora

  Children, Love Is, Papa

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• There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

  John Thune

  Country, Children, Years

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Children, Brain, Age

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• It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Kids, Emotional

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• I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Pregnancy, Four

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• We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with

  Rodney Erickson

  Children, Past, Looks

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Your child can die from chickenpox.

  Paul A. Offit

  Children, Your Children, Dies

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

  Patricia Arquette

  Children, College, Significant Things

  Source: collider.com

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• We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Generations, World

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

  Richard Sherman

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think that paying your bills every month, that's not so glamorous or fun, having a job, or when your child gets sick. That's why when there are those special things, they are even more important and you want them to have a purpose.

  Zac Posen

  Jobs, Children, Fun

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

  Vince Staples

  Children, Fighting, Common

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview With Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Children, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.

  Guy Maddin

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think very often when we think we are aiming at the best for our children, what we are really doing is trying to position them for competitive success in an intensely driven kind of society. I'm not sure that always leads to the good life or to happiness.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Good Life, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Humility, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.

  Tad Devine

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Children, Impact

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says "You know what? I am going to move my life towards that type of goodness, doing that type of goodness, being that type of goodness and kindness. I think that is how someone becomes a hero.

  John Assaraf

  Kindness, Children, Hero

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't tell them one thing and do something different. Be congruent with what you would like them to be by showing them how to be that way.

  John Assaraf

  Children, Numbers, Parent

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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