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“The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.”

Children Pain Essentials Losing My Children Excess Baggage Cleansing Overboard Excess Baggage

Author:Isabel Allende

“Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.”

Way Children Enough Home Mother Return Logic Silent Hardest Hated My Children Someday Over You Bites Bugs Creeps I Loved You Milky Way

Author:Erma Bombeck

“It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.”

Should Years Heart Children Has Beens Father Break My Heart Should Have My Children Should Have Been Breaking My Heart

Author:Bear Grylls

“Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.”

Children Worry Terrorism My Children Panic

Author:Dana Milbank

“I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.”

Ifs Needs Kind Children Real Able Dark Walks Doors Real Life My Children Shakes Relief Imaginary Dark Days Imaginary Life

Author:Mira Sorvino

“I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.”

Want Children Art Father My Children No Money

Author:Jason Momoa

“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.”

Way Want Wells Children I Can Speak Felt Growing Up Too Much Growing Happened Possibility Terrible Difficulty My Children

Author:Lukas Moodysson

“I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].”

Thinking Want Children Parent Decision Information Demand My Children Comprehension

Author:Will Smith

“While they are kids, my children must do as I say.”

Children Kids My Children

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“My children are lovely. They're perfect.”

Children Perfect Lovely My Children

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by the time I got to LA, and then famous again with that whirlwind. I did really want substance in my life, and when I stopped with the road for my children, it was really because I didn't want to miss out. It wasn't just selflessness. I didn't want to miss out on that.”

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Author:Lynda Carter

“If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.”

Ifs Children Written My Children

Book:Dance on the earth: a memoir

Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir

“I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.”

Children Walks Streets Figures Dad My Children Britain Nightmare Laughed Ridicule Figure Skating Devastated

Author:David Icke

“First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.”

People Firsts Children Sometimes My Children Upset

Author:Jenji Kohan

“I guess in all of the obvious ways. I can afford more diapers for my children. If I want to buy a complete set of Garbage Pail Kids on Ebay I don't have to ask my wife so hard. For the most part, it's mostly the same. I keep my head down and I just work on comics for most of the time.”

Ifs Way Want Children I Can Hard Kids Asks Wife Down And Obvious My Wife My Children Garbage Diapers Ebay

Author:Robert Kirkman

“I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.”

Children Kids Amount Conversation My Friends My Children Interrupted

Author:Shannyn Sossamon

“To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton).”

Thinking Children Littles School Judging Racism Percent Slavery Leaving My Children Sexism American History Imperialism Clay Homophobia Holmes Little Time

Author:Mona Charen

“I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.”

Knows Children Soul Fall Lost Heaven Hell Tree Approach Winter Saved These Days My Children Alas

Author:John Vianney

“I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.”

Want Children Views Plans Mom Cold Approach My Children Formal

Author:Ivanka Trump

“My family is the most important thing in my life. I would love passionately to have my own children. To have a baby inside me - it's one of my dreams in lie. I would love to hold my children, to run to them, to give them the same happiness my family gives to me.”

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Author:Laetitia Casta

“My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"”

People Ifs Knows Children Eye Jobs Asks Possibility Shining My Children

Author:Benjamin Zander

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.”

Want Mind Children Made Materials My Children Muscles Iron Nerves Steel Thunderbolts

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.”

Knows Should Trying Heart May Children Littles Causes Know How Failing Tears My Heart Please Blame Faults Dear My Children Merit

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)

“My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.”

“I am only as good as my children are.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.”

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Author:Anne Heche

“It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.”

Thinking Knows Children Process Interesting Critics My Children Mature

Author:William Monahan

“My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.”

Children Asks Stuff Rounds Ask Me My Children Old Stuff

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Children Happens Turns Teach One Thing Capacity Should Have Scared My Children Parts Of Life Downfall Pedestal

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!”

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Author:John Vianney

“Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.”

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Author:Ziggy Marley

“My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.”

Children Hard Bigs Eye Hate Father Stars My Children Hate Me Public Eye

Author:Brian May

“Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.”

Children Evil Race Mankind Welcome My Children Communion Nature Of Man

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.”

Children Made Happens Law Pay Mistake Willing Paid Broke My Children Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Paula Poundstone

“My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.”

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Author:Julia Ward Howe

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.”

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Author:Lewis Hine

“A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I'm like, well, maybe it's making my child fireproof.”

Knows Wells Children Found Fire Wife Dangerous Danger My Wife My Children Breasts Chemicals Milk Optimist Breastfeeding

Author:Greg Giraldo

“I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.”

Children Fun Dresses My Children Worthwhile Grandchildren Costumes Dolls Grandma Wonderland Children And Grandchildren Grandkids

Author:Colleen Atwood

“Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.”

Knows Firsts Children Harm My Children Know Me

Author:Michael Jackson

“All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.”

Way Children Littles Artist My Children

Author:Erykah Badu

“That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.”

Ifs Way Children Ends Cities Class Citizens Treated One Way My Children Chicago Second Class Citizens City Of Chicago

Author:Chris Hayes

“What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive!”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.”

Children Choices Felt Sacrifice Willing Right Now My Children

Author:Joan Chen

“Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.”

Ifs Knows Kind Children Two Home Air Worst New York Stores My Children Canada Hotel Two Days Toronto

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Children Has Beens Wanted Loss Grief Stage My Children Shock Disbelief

Author:Elin Nordegren

“Work, my children, work with your whole heart and soul! That is the thing. Mind not the fruit of work. What if you go to hell working for others? That is worth more than to gain heaven by seeking your own salvation... Sri Ramakrishna came and gave his life for the world. I will also sacrifice my life.”

Ifs World Mind Heart Children Soul Whole Heaven Hell Sacrifice Gains Salvation Fruit Seeking My Children What If Heart And Soul Go To Hell

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.”

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Book:Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Source: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

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