Quotes with foster-children

Quotes 201 till 220 of 741.

  • Bertolt Brecht High above the lake a bomber flies.
    From the rowing boats
    Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
    They appear like young starlings, their beaks
    Wide open for food.
    Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Bernanke High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ken Dodd Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Bob Filner However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
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  • Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Christopher Leach Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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  • Leo Tolstoy Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anna Freud I am glad that I do not have any children.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Jack Handey I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
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