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Parent Quotes by Barack Obama
- Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support…
- The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented…
- At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities…
- Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come…
- ...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them,…
- Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and…
- And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but…
- I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a…
- Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god…
- My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
- There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So…
- And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to…
- My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African…
- perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that…
- It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see…
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- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu
- I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do… — Erykah Badu
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot
- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin