Your Children Quotes - Page 36

• You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Castles, Moats

  Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.21, Random House

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Mean, Parent

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• You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

  Joel Salatin

  Children, Food, World

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• Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Habit, Uninspired

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

  Gary Chapman

  Running, Children, Long

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2012). “The 5 Love Languages of Children”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

  Patricia Briggs

  Children, Sacrifice, World

  Patricia Briggs (2005). “Raven's Strike”, p.344, Penguin

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• We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Sick, Insanity

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• You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Lonely, Children, Long

  Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin

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• Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.

  Chris Wooding

  Children, Sarcasm, Names

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• Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Smile

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• You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Children, Mean

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• Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

  Tibor Kalman

  Children, Reality, Understanding Knowledge

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• Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Strong, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Sleep, Lame

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• You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Children, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Tattoo, Children, Real

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• Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Children, Husband

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

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• You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

  Zadie Smith

  Children, Allies

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• Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

  Robert Orben

  Children, Food, Cereal

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• It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Heartache, Lasts

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Good Life, Believe

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