Your Children Quotes - Page 31

• Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

  Art Alexakis

  Children, Parent, Way

  "A Father’s Day Interview With Art Alexakis of Everclear". Interview with Veronica De La Cruz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.

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• If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

  Ed Stetzer

  Children, Church, Way

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• If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Color, White

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

  Lars von Trier

  Children, Helping, Arguing

  "Lars and His Real Girls" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. October 17, 2011.

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• The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Parent, States

  "Science Of Vaccines Is Settled - But Politics Are More Complicated". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 3, 2015.

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• You can't live your life through your children.

  Carl Lewis

  Children, Live Your Life, Our Children

  "Carl Lewis On Sportsmanship, Olympic Legacy". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. August 6, 2008.

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• It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Children, Father, Teaching

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• When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

  John Lasseter

  Children, World, Film

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• Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, White

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.121, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Childhood, Trying

  "‘Brady Bunch’ Star Mike Lookinland On Fame, Alcoholism And His Surprising New Career". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

  Anthony Doerr

  Childhood, Waiting, Here And There

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• When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

  Steve McFadden

  Dog, Children, Kids

  "EastEnd Boy". www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2001.

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• Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Children, Nice, Book

  "Amazing Shangri-La rescue story". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2011.

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• Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

  E. W. Howe

  Children, Men, Talking

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• Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

  Paul Hauck

  Children, Self Esteem, Teaching

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• The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

  Louise Hart

  Children, Parenting, Wish

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• The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

  Louise Hart

  Time, Children, Parenthood

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• All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

  Peter Kline

  Children, School, Waiting

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• Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Children, Father, Teenager

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

  Leopold Fechtner

  Children, Dark, House

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• There're going to be animals in God's Heaven on Earth, a New Heaven and a New Earth! God's not going to have His Creation defeated. He put those animals here for pets and playthings and companions for you and your children, and you're still going to enjoy the animals.

  David Berg

  Children, Animal, Heaven

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• At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Memories, Children

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Children, Science

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.379, Psychology Press

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• I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.

  Vera Farmiga

  Mother, Children, Reading

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

  Julianna Margulies

  Children, Home, Love Life

  Source: variety.com

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