Quotes with foster-children

Quotes 661 till 680 of 741.

  • Bill Clinton We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Alice Walker We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Betty Williams We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Kofi Annan We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Plato We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Francis H. Bradley We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Fay Weldon We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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  • Brigham Young We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Phyllis Diller We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alan Bennett We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
    Stories for Children (1984)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Ben Foster We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Ben Foster We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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