"We will have to give up the hope……" — Judith Viorst
"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong."
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42 Quotes by Judith Viorst
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It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and…
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The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as…
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For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough…
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as…
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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
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Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
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Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
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If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death…
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There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we…
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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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