Famous Quotes: Children

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
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This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.
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I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
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The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.
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The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.
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Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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