![[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-her-unicef-work-im-glad-ive-got-a-name-because-im-using-it-for-what-it.jpg)
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When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him. Richard K. Morgan
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mother feet hair
My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10. Ryan Kwanten
mother father parent
My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it. Roz Chast
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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. Ruben Blades
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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. Romola Garai
mother strong aunt
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive. Tyler Perry
children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
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Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.
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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
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Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
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There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
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Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.
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He was a father figure to all of us.
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He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended. John Cornyn
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Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble
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The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.
father work
I will be the father of a 5-year-old once. I will work for 30 years.
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He was our father no one man can replace him.
father fathers second
He was like a second father to me, Marcelo Balboa
father straight
He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what he thought.