Best two & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”

People Giving Children Two Hard Parent Dog Brother Hard Work Dad Comfortable My Dad Dna Two Brothers Comfortable Life

Author:David Oyelowo

“I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.”

Thinking Feels Children Two Done Whole Enjoy Situation Dangerous Whole Life Dangerous Situations Grown Children

Author:Martha Raddatz

“I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.”

Children Two Moments Next Birth Scene Sitting Tables Following Next Day Bizarre Friday Sitting Around Leonardo Rehearsing Morocco Sitting Around A Table

Author:Mark Strong

“My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.”

Children Two Three Parent Devoted Civics Beavers Civic Minded

Author:Sissy Spacek

“There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.”

Years Kind Children Two Country Battle Happenings Our Children Two Years Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:John Thune

“My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.”

Children Made Two Pay Attention My Children Who We Are

Author:Amy Waldman

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

Trying Children Two Wanted Actors Bits Half Roles Cry Mom My Mom Convinced Nervous Ran Cute Auditions Skeptical Interrupted Bossy Child Actors

Author:Mae Whitman

“I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.”

Children Two Four Tiny Grandchildren Grown Children

Author:Brock Yates

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

Children Two School Together Mother Fighting Father Levels Class Middle Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Seven Grades Middle Class Middle Class Family Two Sisters

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!”

Children Two Night Sleep Morning Middle Mom Paint Get Up Middle Of The Night

Author:Julie Mehretu

“I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.”

World Writing Children Two Hard Fun

Author:Denise Mina

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.”

Looks Children Two Government Nations Results Impossible Thirds Profession Analysis

Book:Collected papers ...

Source: Collected papers ...

“No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.”

Humans Children Two Together Speak Language Human Beings Heard Speech Capable Infant Scratches

Book:WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.”

People Children Two Faces Careers Demand Scales

Author:Jodi Kantor

“No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.”

Way Should Years Children Two Reason Might Able Path Students Agree Eight Basics

Author:John Katzman

“My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.”

Firsts Children Two Dream Effort Study Areas Pilots Parallels Pursued Astronomers

Author:Claude Nicollier

“I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.”

Children Two Home Boys Son Involved Cameras Video My Children Video Cameras

Author:Sophie Thompson

“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.”

Love Children Two Happiness Parent Friendship Family Relationship Mom Clever Parenthood Thank You Funny Inspirational Referee Funny Parenting Funny Parent

Author:David Frost

“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”

“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”

“There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.”

Kind Children Two Humor Funny Pleasure Travel Cruise

Author:George Burns

“The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.”

People Children Said Two Boys Happened Boat

Author:Anna Lee

“This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.”

Ifs Feels Looks Children Two Asks Felt Parent One Thing Agree Obligation Advertising Enlisting

Author:Edward Boches

“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”

“If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.”

Ifs Way Children Two Different Economic Shapes Outcomes Different Place Later In Life

Author:Gwen Ifill

“What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.”

Way Feels Children Doe Two Pain Mother Pure Direct Ruins Occasions Routes Psychics Hysteria Humiliated

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.”

Mean Children Two Together Women Half Sky Creating Other Half

Author:John Lennon

“We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.”

Men Children Stills Two Ends Country Home Jobs Can Do Modern Men And Women Raised Two Jobs

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.”

May Children Two Running House Strong Ten Built Stones Fairy Sheep Bricks Cherries Ponies Granite

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.”

Should Children Has Beens Two Wanted Sides Goal Debate Abortion Two Sides Phony

Author:Germaine Greer

“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”

Ifs Children Two Home Mother Dad Shoes Dear Palaces Old Shoes

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

People World Believe Kind Children Two Reason Choices Father Poor Break Needed Letting Go Desperate Sheep Child Of God Needed Love

Book:Far North

Source: Far North

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.”

Writing May Children Art Two Book Lasts Three Nations Common Race Genius Understood Fortune Deeds Autobiography Good Fortune Trustworthy Manuscripts Triumphant Great Nations

Author:John Ruskin

“A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.”

Children Littles Two Winter Very Good Entertainment Reasonable Quarters Salt Fourth Dishes Peppers Dine

Author:Jonathan Swift

“My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls”

Children Two Soul Cry Brother Wall My Soul My Brother

Book:The Selected Poems of William Blake

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake

“Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.”

Men Children Two Jobs Three Support Feminist Nurture Divorced Two Jobs

Author:Warren Farrell

“I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.”

Believe Children Two I Believe Growing Up Growing Trouble Brother Responsible Older Brother Older Sister Youngest Child

Book:The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

Source: The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.”

Children Two Home School Culture Influence Tradition Objectives Primaries Indian Treatment Remove Chapters Dominant School System Family Tradition Dominant Culture

Author:Stephen Harper

“A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.”

Children Two Light Interest Accepting Knowing Adults Extraordinary Not Knowing Incidents Commonplace Improbable Midway

Book:The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas

Source: The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas

“Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.”

Children Two Character Four Huge Asking Casts Appeals These Days Publishers Maximum

Author:Kirby Larson

“I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.”

Writing Years Firsts Children Two Book Wanted America Mines Accepted Nine Rejected Publishers April Publication Enchanted Nine Years Children's Books Picture Books

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

“The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order to perceive ourselves accurately, are worthy and welcome. If you don't feel worthy and welcome, you really won't know what to do with yourself. You won't know how to behave in a world of other people. You won't think you deserve to get what you need.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Needs Feels Children Two Order Know How Adults Deserve Worthy Welcome Perceive Behave

Author:Jean Liedloff

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