Your Children Quotes - Page 35

• The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Powerful, Home

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• It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Home, Careers

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• There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Children, Giving Up

  "Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author And Facebook COO, On The Biggest Mistakes Working Women Make". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.

  Michael Sheen

  Children, Thinking, Hands

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

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• There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Driving, Introducing

  "Driving: a parent's nightmare" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Life, Children, Shows

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• If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, Important, Different

  "Justice Sotomayor Tells Oprah About Her Childhood — And About Her Single Mom, Celina". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Children, Wife, Lovers

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• Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

  Josh Turner

  Children, Priorities

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• Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

  Shania Twain

  Mom, Children, Responsibility

  Shania Twain (2012). “From This Moment On”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

  Shania Twain

  Children, Thinking, Perspective

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

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• Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Girlfriend, Children, Father

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• I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  FaceBook post by Ayelet Waldman from Apr 27, 2010

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• Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Happiness, Children, Valentine

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• The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

  Kerry Washington

  Children, Taken, Men

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2012.

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• You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

  Rachel Weisz

  Children, Perspective, Way

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Kids, Doe

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

  Steven Wright

  Children, Nice, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

  Andrew Young

  Children, Frustration, Trying

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• It's OK to let your children see you cry.

  Regina Brett

  Children, Cry, God Never Blinks

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.

  Niecy Nash

  Children, Memories, Worry

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• You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

  Phil Robertson

  Children, Law, Discipline

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• Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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