Quotes with children

Quotes 661 till 680 of 698.

  • Blanche Lincoln Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Scott While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Epictetus Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Thornton Wilder Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Adam Sandler With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Golda Meir Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Bill Evans Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • Bertie Carvel Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Ellen Goodman You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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  • Franklin P. Jones You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Fay Weldon You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
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