Quotes with parent-child

Quotes 261 till 280 of 503.

  • Beyonce Knowles My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bruno Mars My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Barry Marshall My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Berkeley Breathed My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bill Halter My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Brad Meltzer My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Bruce Coville My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Never forget that if you are God's child through Jesus Christ, you are praying to a Father who couldn't love you more than he already does.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Epictetus Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Carol Bellamy New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Victor Hugo No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Emma Goldman No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Brad Henry No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Bob Riley No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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