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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made m...

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Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and fail...

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As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly al...

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I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

Children have a tendency to behave as poorly as the most poorly behaved kid in the room. The laws of...

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I used to wonder why I had hair on my legs, but now I know it's for my toddler sons and daughters to...

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Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings...

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Occasionally, a dog will be presented as some training method for having a baby. "My girlfriend and ...

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When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother ...

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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, n...

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You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us

Ms Finney shared an office on the third floor with several other court reporters. Their software sys...

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John GrishamTheodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work ...

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Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them openi...

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I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our Eng...

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I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.

When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thou...

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Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all me...

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He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As lo...

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Louis SacharThere's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

I'm not going to have a husband anyway," said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get mos...

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Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed...

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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

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Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is ...

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We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a f...

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I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches the...

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I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the...

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While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in ...

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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unio...

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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...

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I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my g...

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...

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no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. ...

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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the wor...

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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all th...

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The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those day...

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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted...

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You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda...

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Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro' the rye,Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher'...

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I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place ...

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My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And m...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips...

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To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that i...

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stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with th...

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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child be...

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Sydney J. HarrisThe Best of Sydney J. Harris

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where...

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I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their...

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Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up.

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are...

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The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ...

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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and wat...

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And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers...

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We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

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Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from hig...

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I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw peop...

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Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would...

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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

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Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great ...

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She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make ...

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There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, t...

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Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, an...

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Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

I used to give X-ray vision a lot of thought because I couldn’t see how it could work. I mean, if yo...

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Bill BrysonThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...

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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the me...

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School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, th...

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Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have m...

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