Quotes with foster-children

Quotes 401 till 420 of 741.

  • Bre Pettis My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Bode Miller My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Boman Irani My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Hecht Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Never have children, only grand children.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Harry Houdini Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Euripides Noble fathers have noble children.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Alex Haley Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Jodie Foster Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
    Jodie Foster
    American actress and filmmaker (born 1962) (1962 - )
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  • Ronald Laing Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Carol Bellamy Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bruno Bettelheim Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Cosby Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
    ISBN: 9780929631004 Selected from Fatherhood and Time Flies (1989 edit
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ban Kimoon Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.
    U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack (2014)
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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