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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
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
- Nov 07, 2020
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
- Calculating
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- Nov 07, 2020
As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
- Courted
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020