Quotes with foster-children

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  • Theodore Roosevelt The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Riley The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Jean Paul The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Lord George Byron The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thornton Wilder The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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  • John W. Foster The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Blake Farenthold The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Betty Friedan The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Albert Einstein The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carol Bellamy The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Alice Miller The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • John Keats The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Ben Foster The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski The soul is healed by being with children.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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