Quotes with foster-children

Quotes 501 till 520 of 741.

  • Calista Flockhart Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • John Augustus Shedd Simply having children does not make mothers.
    John Augustus Shedd
    American writer (1859 - 1928)
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  • Carl Orff Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
    Carl Orff
    German composer and pedagogue (1895 - 1982)
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  • Mother Teresa Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Isadora Duncan So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
    Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ruth E. Renkel Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bob Filner Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • John Foster Dulles The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
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  • Adam Ferguson The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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