Your Children Quotes - Page 34

• Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

  Wentworth Miller

  Children, Home, Lessons

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• Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Important, Fields

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• Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

  Shelley Morrison

  Children, Animal, Pet

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• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Children, Boys, Parent

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• It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Nice, Heart

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• My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Meaningful, Children, Book

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• Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

  Liam Neeson

  Children, Ongoing, Process

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• Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

  Brandy Norwood

  Children, Quality, Attention

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• It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Children, Feelings, Arms

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• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Fathers Day, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

  Suze Orman

  Children, Growing Up, Chance

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• If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

  Suze Orman

  Senior, Children, Spring

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• See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

  Joel Osteen

  Children, People, Cameras

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Children, Real, Book

  "Why Don't You? Sarah Jessica Parker" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 4, 2009.

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• You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

  Christine Pelosi

  Children, Responsibility, Voting

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• After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

  John Ratzenberger

  Children, Breathing, Mind

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  When I hear people talk about juggling or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy because sacrifice infers that there was something better to do than the thing - than being with your children.

  Chris Rock

  Children, Crazy, Sacrifice

  "Chris Rock On The Funny Business Of Finding Success". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Children, School

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Transcendentalism, Influence

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• The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Community

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• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

  John Ruskin

  Trust, Children, Truth

  John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

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• If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Thinking, Miracle

  "Teach Your Children Well for a Better Life" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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