Quotes 461 till 480 of 741.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
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Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
The National Press Club in Washington DC, 1957 -
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
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People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
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People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
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People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
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Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
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