#dre

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#also #attachments #children #everything #father

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#dreams #first #first time #getting #lovely

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#back #children #enslave #friends #horror

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#characteristic #children #cultures #does #example

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#china #earnings #expanse #geographic #going

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#abuse #also #attention #believe #best

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#children #golf #hobbies #i #jobs

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#anyone #book #books #ceremony #contains

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#alleged #children #fled #france #franco

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#children #improve #nice #nice things #others