Your Children Quotes - Page 28

• It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

  David Coleman

  Friday, Childhood, Needs

  "Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. September 2014.

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• Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Memories, Laughter

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• To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your horrible boss or having a spotless house is a higher priority than playing with your children or sleeping off the flu, be prepared for a long and strenuous battle against destiny. Also, be prepared to lose.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Believe, Sleep

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• A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.

  Pam Brown

  Yellow, Long, Childhood

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• Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

  Susan George

  Children, Employment, Able

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• Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

  Elizabeth George

  Children, Quality, Want

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• Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

  Andrew Davies

  Children, Giving, Advice

  "This much I know". Interview by Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

  Jim Carroll

  Jobs, Powerful, Children

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• 99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

  Mark Webber

  Children, Parent, Just Being

  Source: collider.com

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• Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Children, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, Decision, Negative

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.

  Laird Hamilton

  Children, Law, Levels

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

  Billie Jean King

  Children, Tennis, Adults

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.

  Paula Deen

  Children, Wings, Giving

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• If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Want, Fairy Tale

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.

  Karen Armstrong

  Children, Grief, Want

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Thinking, Abuse

  "Picture Perfect" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

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• A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

  Mark Hart

  Children, Home, Parent

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• When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

  Gregory J. P. Godek

  Children, Kids, Practice

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• Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Teacher, Children

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Guilt

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• How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Law, Omnipotence

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• If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Skills, Giving

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• What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school?

  Piers Morgan

  Dream, Children, School

  "Piers Morgan Live", transcripts.cnn.com. February 27, 2012.

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• If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Children, Organization, Support

  "My Commitment to Giving". Giving Pledge letter, givingpledge.org.

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