My Children Quotes - Page 14

• I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

  Paula Poundstone

  Children, Mistake, Law

  "Poundstone Regains Custody of Adopted Children", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2002.

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• My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Baby, Children, Husband

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• In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

  Lewis Hine

  Children, Attachment, Cameras

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• A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I'm like, well, maybe it's making my child fireproof.

  Greg Giraldo

  Children, Fire, Wife

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• I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.

  Colleen Atwood

  Children, Fun, Grandma

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• Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners.

  Henry Blodget

  Children, People, Wife

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Artist, Littles

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  Chris Hayes

  Children, Class, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Brother, Children, Journey

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

  Joan Chen

  Children, Sacrifice, Choices

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  New York, Children, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

  Elin Nordegren

  Children, Grief, Loss

  "Elin Nordegren Speaks: 'I Feel Stronger Than I Ever Have'" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

  Sally Mann

  Children, Light, Expression

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children.

  Jens Lehmann

  Children, People, Giving

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• I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.

  Tina Roth-Eisenberg

  Children, Eight, Long

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• Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?

  Nancy Burson

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Mother, Children, People

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• Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

  Tom Cruise

  Children, Film, Strive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.

  Toni Braxton

  Children, Harm, Knows

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• You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Children, Clothes, Wife

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• I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

  Will Smith

  Children, Father, Years

  "Fictional character: Christopher Gardner". "The Pursuit of Happyness", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.

  Wynonna Judd

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• ... you are a microcosm of Me - the Divine All, the Holy Everything, the Sum and Substance. .. the Alpha and the Omega. .. Yes, I am God, as you now understand Him. I am Goddess as you now comprehend Her, I am the Conceiver and the Creator of Everything you now know and experience, and you are My children. .. even as I am the child of another.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Children, Substance, Goddess

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.154, Penguin

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• The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

  Amy Grant

  Children, Growing Up, World

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