Best Own Children Quotations
110 Own Children quotes by 96 unique authors
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How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns(....) But not to see them at all,…
— Peter S. Beagle
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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I…
— Louise Erdrich
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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves…
— Orson Scott Card
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It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of…
— George R. R. Martin
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The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours…
— Thomas Hardy
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If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.
— P. C. Cast
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In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to…
— Roald Dahl
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I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
— Erma Bombeck
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Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
— R.L. LaFevers
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In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a…
— David Sedaris
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In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are…
— Alice Miller
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The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
— Doug Larson
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All revolutions devour their own children.
— Ernst Rohm
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But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that…
— Aristotle
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An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get…
— Marianne Williamson
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When a mother or father is willing to pay smugglers and risk the lives of their own children by sending them on a dangerous journey…
— Al Sharpton
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My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she…
— Susan Shreve
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
— Pat Brown
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
— Pat Brown
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I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults,…
— Daniel Greenberg
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I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever…
— Hunter Tylo
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