Quotes with foster-children

Quotes 541 till 560 of 741.

  • Bertrand Russell The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bob Filner The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Billy Graham The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Midge Decter The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Ben Foster The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bill Hybels The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Foster Dulles The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Theodore M. Hesburgh The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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  • Frank A. Clark The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Eugene O'Neill The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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