Quotes with foster-children

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  • Burton Richter In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bob Riley In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Horace Benchley In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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  • Carl Sagan In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bobby Scott In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • John Ruskin In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton In science we resemble children collecting a few pebbles at the beach of knowledge, while the wide ocean of the unknown unfolds itself in front of us.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Camilla Lackberg In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Benjamin Tucker In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Carol Bellamy In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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