Your Children Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.

  Regina King

  Children, White, Black

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, Race, Focus

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

  Lauren Bowles

  Children, World, Littles

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• Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into the very ordinary but profound moment to moment connection to your children and you do away with those extraneous attachments to achievement or beauty or wealth or success. And while those things have their place, they don't overwhelm or override the life of the parent and child. Your life is actually suddenly liberated.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Thinking, Attachment

  "Evolving From Control to Connection Parenting". Interview with Allison Sutter, www.chicagonow.com. October 13, 2015.

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• As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

  Mike Love

  Song, Children, Way

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• You've got to teach your children to be respectful to the police and you've got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police, the real danger to them 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 1,000 times are other black kids who are going to kill them.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Face the Nation transcripts July 10, 2016: Rawlings, Johnson, Bratton, Brooks, Cummings, Giuliani". "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. July 10, 2016.

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• If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Children, Love You

  "Vice Presidential Nominee Mike Pence Takes Center Stage At GOP Convention". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 21, 2016.

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• It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

  Ezra Miller

  Fall, Childhood, World

  Source: collider.com

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• We're going to get to the point where we ask how the hell we put up with high carbon for so many years. You thank your lucky stars, because you are seeing this transformation in your lifetime. You are going to tell your children and your grandchildren you saw this whole thing in front of your eyes.

  Christiana Figueres

  Stars, Children, Eye

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

  Martin Schulz

  Mother, Brother, Childhood

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

  Eyvind Kang

  Childhood, Sound, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

  Molly Shannon

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.

  Adam Hochschild

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

  Bryan Cranston

  Children, Unfathomable, Happenings

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Children, Pride, Reflection

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's a confusing, tough thing. I mean, I can imagine in this situation. Being a single dad myself now and trying to do the right thing in your children's eyes and in the eyes of your friends and family and all that and then at the other end of the spectrum, you're also trying to date and you want to be yourself and you want to let go.

  Chris Harrison

  Letting Go, Being Yourself, Dad

  Source: blogmytv.com

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• It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.

  T.I.

  Children, Real, Mean

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Daughter, Attitude

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Butterfly, Years

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.621, VM eBooks

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• If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Children

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• Mothers stay close to your daughters Earn & deserve their love & respect Be united with their father in the rearing of your children Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mothers Day, Daughter, Children

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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