My Children Quotes - Page 8

• My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

  Louis Bacon

  Mother, Children, Garden

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• I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Regret, Children

  "Q&A with Kelly Corrigan on moms, dads, glitter and glue". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. February 5, 2014.

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• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  Yochai Benkler

  New York, Children, Village

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• My children were the center of my life.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Children

  "'We Will Retool…and Come at It from a Different Direction'–Cindy Sheehan Says She Will Return After Stepping Back as Antiwar Leader". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 30, 2007.

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• I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Blessing, Speak

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• I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

  Alexandra Wentworth

  Children, Blood, Greek

  "Ali Wentworth Talks ‘Ali In Wonderland,’ Life With George Stephanopoulos" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

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• Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

  Robert K. Massie

  Girl, Daughter, Children

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• When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'

  Lee Radziwill

  Children, Bazaars, Married

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• I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?

  Edgar Saltus

  Children, Philosophy, Book

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• Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

  Belle Boyd

  Children, Son, Boys

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• My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Country, Dog, Children

  "Abba's Agnetha Fältskog returns - and unravels the mystery of her silence" by John Lucas, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

  Dudley Nichols

  Children, Order, Law

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• What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

  William Saroyan

  Children, People, Special

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• My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Dad, Loneliness

  "Tim Burton & Johnny Depp In Step With Alice in Wonderland". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

  Madeleine Albright

  Morning, Children, Grateful

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Brain, Damage

  "An Earful From Mike Tyson". Interview with Steve Springer, articles.latimes.com. October 03, 1999.

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• I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Children, Dad, Mistake

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Dark, Garden

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• Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Mom, Children

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• I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Children, Wife

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.177

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• I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Giving

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• . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

  Ruth Benedict

  Children, Hands, Left Hand

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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• On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Taken, Thinking

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• Life for my child is simple, and is good.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Children, Simple, Simplicity

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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