- Learning
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes marks her 90th birthday by appearing as Michael Berkeley's guest in 'Private Passions'.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children and the screams of this nation.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children, want to know what we're made out of, how it works, and why the universe is the way it is.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children always turn to the light.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020