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Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”

“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”

“I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.”

“I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.”

“It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'”

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Author:Ann Hood

“Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.”

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Author:Margaret Whitlam

“My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.”

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Author:Bo Sanchez

“Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.”

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Author:John Templeton

“I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.”

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Author:Payne Stewart

“As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.”

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Author:Maurice Gibb

“I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!”

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Author:Eva LaRue

“For a time, it would work well. then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible comedowns. I understand why kids kill themselves. I absolutely do. You feel terrible. You feel soul-less. "I'll never do it to my child".”

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Author:Channing Tatum

“Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.”

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Author:Marie Antoinette

“Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."”

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Author:Thomas Gambino

“I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.”

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Book:Town Geology

Source: Town Geology

“I choose faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home.”

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Book:The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life

Source: The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life

“I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.”

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Author:Bob Lilly

“Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.”

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Author:Steve Waugh

“I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.”

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Author:Ben Roberts-Smith

“Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.”

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Author:Mark Dominik

“It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”

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Book:The Lincoln treasury

Source: The Lincoln treasury

“With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.”

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Book:Recollections and Letters

Source: Recollections and Letters

“I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.”

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Author:Carol Bellamy

“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.”

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Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.”

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Author:Melinda Gates

“We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“All children are my children.”

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Author:Nana Mouskouri

“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.”

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