- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to represent the brothas I have seen when I go to the rhythm section of Oakland, hearing brothas speak and tell me about their journeys. Men who have been to prison and found themselves, brothas who have made mistakes but are loving their wives and children, trying to protect them and educate them. These men do exist.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Hate U Give,' I play Big Mav', who was incarcerated for a number of years and is raising three children. He was a gang member but reformed himself, and he's trying to empower his children, help them understand the best way to keep out of trouble.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that while I'm married with children.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto us as children... it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's book.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020