Your Children Quotes - Page 4

• You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

  Richard Sherman

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

  Pope Francis

  Children, Couple, Father

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I think that paying your bills every month, that's not so glamorous or fun, having a job, or when your child gets sick. That's why when there are those special things, they are even more important and you want them to have a purpose.

  Zac Posen

  Jobs, Children, Fun

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

  Vince Staples

  Children, Fighting, Common

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview With Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

  Eyvind Kang

  Childhood, Sound, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Dreams are selfish, in the sense that they always concern issues and events that were weighing on your mind at the time you had the dream. Dreams will warn you about concerns in your career, in your family life, in your relationship with your spouse, and give insight into problems with your children.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Children, Selfish

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

  Theognis of Megara

  Children, Parenting, Greatest Treasure

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• Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says "You know what? I am going to move my life towards that type of goodness, doing that type of goodness, being that type of goodness and kindness. I think that is how someone becomes a hero.

  John Assaraf

  Kindness, Children, Hero

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't tell them one thing and do something different. Be congruent with what you would like them to be by showing them how to be that way.

  John Assaraf

  Children, Numbers, Parent

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• If you can show your child what its like to be charming and giving, show your child what love is really all about and show your child unconditional love, show your child caring and compassion and understanding the nonjudgmental and that is what your child will become.

  John Assaraf

  Children, Caring, Unconditional Love

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.

  Regina King

  Children, White, Black

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.

  Rafael Cruz

  Children, It Takes A Village, Village To Raise A Child

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.

  Ben Harper

  Stars, Children, Sibling

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

  James Hillman

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, Race, Focus

  Source: www.slate.com

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• My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

  Martin Schulz

  Mother, Brother, Childhood

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Would Be, Wonderful

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think you got to put your intimate relationship first. If you can keep your woman first and still love your children, you are going to create the healthiest environment.

  Tony Robbins

  Children, Love You, Thinking

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Giving Up, Sacrifice

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

  Lauren Bowles

  Children, World, Littles

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• When you say No, you also become a role model of healthy boundaries for others (especially your children).

  Doreen Virtue

  Children, Role Models, Healthy

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• Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into the very ordinary but profound moment to moment connection to your children and you do away with those extraneous attachments to achievement or beauty or wealth or success. And while those things have their place, they don't overwhelm or override the life of the parent and child. Your life is actually suddenly liberated.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Thinking, Attachment

  "Evolving From Control to Connection Parenting". Interview with Allison Sutter, www.chicagonow.com. October 13, 2015.

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• As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

  Mike Love

  Song, Children, Way

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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