Quotes 221 till 240 of 797.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
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How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! -
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121
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