My Children Quotes - Page 3

• Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Children, Healthy

  "Angelina Jolie won't tighten red carpet security despite Pitt getting hit", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2014.

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Children, Childhood

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• I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Future, Sea

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

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• My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

  Robin Williams

  Children, Giving, Wonder

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Children, Learning

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• I bought cars for all six of my children

  Pete Edochie

  Children, Car, Six

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• Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Children, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

  James MacArthur

  Children, Want, Marry Me

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• It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Children, College

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• Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up on the screen to basically just say he has no idea who I am. That’s the father of my child!

  Jane Lynch

  Children, Father, Who I Am

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• I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs...but to teach my faith to my children...and to share it with anyone who will listen...that is my right too!

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Rights, Belief

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• My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.

  Nissim Ezekiel

  Mother, Children, Thank God

  Nissim Ezekiel (1966). “Poetry India”

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• My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Jobs, Children, Attention

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

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• I like to spend my time with my children.

  Kelly Preston

  Children, My Time

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• When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

  Kevin Costner

  Children, People, Lucky

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• I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Cancer, Needs

  "My Medical Choice". www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.

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• My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

  Kirk Douglas

  Children, Poverty, Advantage

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• I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

  Travis Barker

  Children, Kids, Nannies

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• I'm obsessed with my children.

  Travis Barker

  Children, Obsessed

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• The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

  Usher

  Children, Atlanta, Relax

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• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  Usher

  Children, Father, Mean

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• I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

  Grace Kelly

  Children, Feelings, Aspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

  Stevie Nicks

  Running, Baby, Children

  "Stevie Nicks in Her Own Words". Interview with Cynthia McFadden, abcnews.go.com. September 7.

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