Quotes with children

Quotes 641 till 660 of 698.

  • Bill Cosby What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Gene Fowler What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Jonathan Franzen What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
    De correcties 263
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Benjamin Mkapa When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
    At the United Nations 60th summit, 2005-09-16
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Henry Fielding When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Angela Davis When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Beryl Bainbridge When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Carine Roitfeld When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • William Feather When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Caitlin Moran When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it...
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.
    (2012)
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Bono When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Rita Rudner Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
    Rita Rudner
    American comedian writer (1953 - )
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  • Novalis Where children are, there is the golden age.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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