Quotes with children

Quotes 261 till 280 of 698.

  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • John Updike If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Bob Dole If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
    Reported in New York Magazine (April 29, 1996), v. 29, no. 17, p. 13.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Bell Hooks If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Brad Sherman If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Carrie P. Meek If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Betty Friedan If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
    The Fountain of Age
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
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  • Barbara Boxer If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Roman Polanski If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
    Roman Polanski
    Polish-French actor and filmmaker (1933 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bruno Maag If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brian Tracy If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Barry McCaffrey If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Norman Douglas If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Adam Grant If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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