I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
Related All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, ... CECELIA AHERN no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. ENOCK MAREGESI I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that... LISA SEE Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting t... BRYAN HILFERTY It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues... JONI ERNST Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Our hearts are with the troops. These are our sons and daughters and neighbors and associates. We ha... KATHY COX We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more... GLORIA STEINEM Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ... JOSEPH ADDISON Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In ... JOSEPH ADDISON Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such t... BETTE DAVIS No question. We know where we are and where all of our competitors are. Certainly it is going to be ... KEITH ACTON Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there i... TOM HANKS I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before ... JA RULE I used to believe that the sorrow of any parent losing a child is the greatest sorrow anyone can kno... JANE STEARE No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom. We are making a... MARILYN FAATZ One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants... NATE BERKUS In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. NIA VARDALOS I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend ... C. JOYBELL C. If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters. EMINEM I know just about every (Carver) player and I like them all. This wasn't necessarily personal. We ju... JAMARR SANDERS We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They... ELIZABETH LONSDORF The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losin... U.G. KRISHNAMURTI Know we not where and when it started? know we not where it is, so far? know we not where we want to... DENILSON RENAS ALBERTO MANUEL DA SILVA DI'VILHENA We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the... TARUN BETALA We all have supernatural powers, but do not know how to use them. That is why they are called SUPER-... SUZY KASSEM 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW It seems to be senseless and I say that because of the situation. We just don't know the truth behin... EVELYN ALLEN Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no m... HOWARD JACOBSON When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE We don't know the people we're helping, but the fact that we're helping is all we need to know. It's... DAN KING We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our sp... TARUN BETALA All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One. ANITA B. SULSER Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselve... HENRY MILLER I'm not gonna lie. I have no motivation right now. I just want to fast-forward to next year. The gam... DEVARIO HUDSON Losing is never an option. Every game we play, we want to win. We put everything we have into winnin... DEMARCUS NELSON We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik... GLORIA STEINEM Why are we so driven to understand, when there is so much that can't be understood? ELIZABETH ALRAUNE There are no so-called earmarks, where members come in and ask you for something, ... That was our p... BILL YOUNG There is a confidentiality. You may not want your neighbor who might be sitting as a parent member t... LAURA GREEN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherish... SAINT PATRICK We are not in a situation where we have to form a federal government at all costs and there is no re... ZORAN DJINDJIC The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are a really tight-knit team. And losing our leader was kind of like losing a parent. AMBER SIMMONS Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL The frustrating part is that we are losing these games -- I don't necessarily think these teams are ... BEN OLSEN Why should any parent be satisfied with their child just meeting the standards when, properly nurtur... SCOTT NELSON There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produce... JESSICA VALENTI The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL We have to want to play. There is no excuse. ... Thankfully, Chicago keeps losing games. We are stil... JOHN SALMONS There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that b... ROSEMARY ALTEA Just that sons and fathers Are like mirrors and daughters are soft RICHARD L. RATLIFF As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and ou... HOWARD DEAN Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be t... ALICE HOFFMAN Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose... DAVID WHYTE They are here in our city, they are visitors, they are welcome. We want to help them in any way we c... BETH WOOD You've got to give them credit defensively, but we just weren't really strong with the basketball. T... KREG KLAVER I just want to talk about winning. I don't even want to think about losing. I know we can't be losin... CHARLIE MANUEL To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I want to know the truth. Basically, just tell us why they're over there, losing their lives the way... EVELYN ALLEN We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way. KATE WICKER Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is o... OSCAR WILDE If you are never truly going to be understood at a place, then it is best that you are completely mi... APURVA GAGLANI You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want... IAN WILLIAMSON since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why w... TUPAC SHAKUR My guys always make you assume they're playing worse than they are. I think they do that because I t... JIM CORBIN There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every s... B. D. WONG That one-on-one time, letting them know that they are not alone and there is someone out there who w... IVOR WEINER I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there... FLANNERY O'CONNOR These children are meant to be valued and nurtured and the best place we can do that, we say, is put... JANET PARSHALL We are losing our soul for this fool's gold called wealth. If we end up with just an industrialized ... PETRA BRIDGEMOHAN It's not going to be something where we stop and chat. I want them focused - that this is it. . . . ... BRENT GUY We all understood why they called the game. If that happened to one of our players, we wouldn't have... JACK KRAMER In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at al... BHARATI MUKHERJEE And I think we're deserving of being there. I think our program is one of the top ones in Texas. Whe... BARRY NORTON To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite rea... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be... ROBERT CRAY I'm really proud of how we battled in the second half - that was Eminence basketball. We were able t... JASON SIMS Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science... CORETTA SCOTT KING It's interesting. There is a concern for Catholic values outside of the Church, but not within the C... BARBARA BLAINE I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban. MALALA YOUSAFZAI If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ... MICHAEL STRONG Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them.... LOUIS DE BERNIèRES Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us... BIBLE All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a ... BENJAMIN SPOCK All of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation are watching to see if we can shoulder this resp... JAMES SOONG They had us on our heels, and I think we just kind of rolled over. Not necessarily give up, but when... ADAM HALUSKA If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are... AHMED ALI ANJUM In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ... GERALD R. FORD
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JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT