As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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Related As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional i... REID HOFFMAN I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own. NATASHA RICHARDSON I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because the... DAVID SUZUKI Part of my drive was guilt. I felt if I did not demonstrate my feelings toward nonviolence and civil... DAVID SCOTT It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional ... KATE MIDDLETON It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do wit... JOYCE MAYNARD I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children... MICHELLE OBAMA I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would ... MEDGAR EVERS Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallnes... CONNIE ROSE PORTER I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charit... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life... THANDIE NEWTON It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald T... EVAN MCMULLIN I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t... MICHAEL EALY I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke thro... ANDREW SOLOMON We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to... LYNN COADY Like many dads I know, I've long been motivated in all aspects of my life by my love for my chil... TOM CARPER I don't think Mr. Cohen has any greater rights as a contract purchaser (to the environmental data) t... FRANK MURPHY If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital... NICHOLAS KRISTOF I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role mod... MICHAEL REDHILL Feedom has never been free ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would ... MEDGAR EVERS To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, wh... FRANCESCO TOTTI If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as... BARBARA COLOROSO I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a... JACK WILD I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher stan... PHIL MCGRAW Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ... DARREN SHAN Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children... BARBARA WALTERS It's better to be talking to your children all along than when it's too late. Parents should just ca... ELIZABETH MOORE The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education ... MARTIN O'MALLEY Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the sa... ORSON SCOTT CARD As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling... THOMAS WATSON I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to ... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... MICHAEL MORPURGO As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... EZEKIEL EMANUEL All of the children out there deserve to come home to their parents the way, the way Elizabeth has c... ELIZABETH SMART Under President Trump, our nation is going to make great strides toward protecting the unborn. Pries... ALVEDA KING ...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien... ELDER PORPHYRIOS I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only lov... KATHA POLLITT I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien ... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectiv... JIMMY CARTER Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t... DIRK BENEDICT As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are. PHIL MCGRAW As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and rais... ALESSIA CARA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children... ORLANDO BLOOM Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my... CAMRYN MANHEIM I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like ... RICHARD DAWKINS My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left i... DOMINIQUE MOCEANU All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a bett... BYRON DORGAN All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immed... GARY BAUER It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose ... OLIVIA HUSSEY And it tries to strengthen procedural safeguards for the most vulnerable of children from contiguous... CHRISTOPHER NUGENT I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN I guess I'm a little disappointed in the president who says unless you're willing to do everything m... DICK ARMEY When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected eq... DONALD TRUMP Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. LESLYE WALTON I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves... MARSHA THOMASON I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and p... AMITY GAIGE Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. EMILIA CLARKE I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher stan... PHIL MCGRAW I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making ... VICTOR BORGE I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making i... VICTOR BORGE Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing r... JOHN BRADSHAW As policymakers - and as parents - we have a responsibility to examine the effects of media on our c... JOSEPH LIEBERMAN They don't fear it at all, they see it as a liberation. And when they divorce, of course, they get e... KATHY LETTE Our study should provide hope to parents for an equivalent, if not better, future for their prematur... DR. SAROJ SAIGAL There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first ... GARTH NIX I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a... DAVID FURNISH Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children fr... MARK SANFORD I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean tha... CAROL BRAUN I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean tha... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind... COREY FELDMAN They lost their parents. They lost their normal surroundings and often feel they are at fault. I fel... GORDON JOHNSON We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting i... LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such ques... BETH KEPHART My parents stood still. It was like we were on two separate islands. Mom and Dad were on one, and I ... JENELLE JACK PIERRE Parents, keep your children closer when they are young, because they will keep you closer when you'r... "BETA" METANI' MARASHI Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move a... PAULO COELHO When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I wanted my children to understand that not all children get everything they ask for or want. That n... DENISE SMITH For our beginning reader program, we will take children as young as 4-and-a-half and teach them how ... DANA LASHLEY Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselve... JIMMY IOVINE Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and at... NAOMI KLEIN My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children), JENNIFER ANDERSON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased... FRANCIS BACON Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increas... FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased... SIR FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased... FRANCIS BACON I'd like them to legalize us, so my family can have a better life. If God wants (immigration officia... EVA CASTILLO Rarely does anyone speak of fear for his own life, as if an unspoken etiquette prevails. JANE GROSS If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness ... KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Since we're in a small town, it's easy for people to assume they know all about the children, so I t... JAMIE SIMMONS Certainly, parents are very fortunate to be parents, to have children and to be employed. But we hav... BARBARA SCHNEIDER Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil... LEE HANEY My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea... AL ROKER
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