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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it's to get you to heaven.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my Mexican-born grandfather, Rafael, immigrated to work in the mines of the American Southwest, where he eventually settled with his young bride to raise 15 kids, he did it to give his children a better life.
- Charter Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
- Bestow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
- Trouble
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- Nov 07, 2020