"If you want your children to turn out……" — Abigail Van Buren
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."
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41 Quotes by Abigail Van Buren
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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no…
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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first…
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For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such.…
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off…
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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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