Famous Quotes: Child

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
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My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.
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What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
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I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
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I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
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The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
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Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
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The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
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Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
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