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- Nov 07, 2020
Children Quotes
Raising kids, and the duties that come with it.
Quotes about "children" here include a filmmaker recalling audience shock at a controversial early work, alongside pointed reminders that entertainment isn't a substitute for parenting at home. For prayer-focused content about children, see Prayers for children.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'
- Oil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
- Sit
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- Nov 07, 2020
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We literally hand over our most private data, our DNA, but we're not just consenting for ourselves, we are consenting for our children, and our children's children. Maybe we don't live in a world where people are genetically discriminated against now, but who's to say in 100 years that we won't?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020