Quotes with children

Quotes 481 till 500 of 698.

  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bob Filner Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
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  • Adam Ferguson The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Dorothy Parker The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Ney The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Andrew H. Malcolm The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
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  • Wayne Dyer The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Bob Keeshan The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Antonio Porchia The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Stephen Sondheim The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
    Stephen Sondheim
    American composer (1930 - 2021)
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  • Jean Paul The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • W. H. Auden The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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