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Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. -- Guy Debord
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane. -- Tom Petty
We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves. -- David Farland
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another. -- Rebecca Solnit
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like. -- Catherynne M. Valente
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research. -- Chris Cleave
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them. -- Kim Basinger
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost. -- Anna Freud
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. -- Robin Marantz Henig
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. -- Anna Freud
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters. -- Foster Friess
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. -- Danielle de Niese
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. -- Warren Farrell
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. -- Marcelene Cox
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait. -- Otto Frank
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. -- Allan Bloom
The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. -- Chaka Fattah
I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously, spend their lives replacing the things they lost when they were children. -- Jill Davis
The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala. -- Nolan North
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall. -- Anne Lamott
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. -- Augustus Hare
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible. -- Katherine Helmond
Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music. -- Clive Davis
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. -- Peter York
We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children. -- Kyle Petty
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. -- Lisa T. Shepherd
Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. -- W. H. Auden
We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked -- Charles Eddie Wiseman
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. -- Germaine Greer
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives. -- Malala Yousafzai
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Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction. -- Ravi Zacharias
The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters. -- Foster Friess
Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister. -- Gail Sheehy
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. -- Ami McKay
[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away. -- Patti Smith
As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad. -- Donald Trump
He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink. -- Ibn Ata Allah
Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost. -- Donita K. Paul
I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine. -- Janet Fitch

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