Children Quotes - Page 25

• Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

  Jonathan Raban

  College, Years, Different

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• Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

  Gene Hackman

  Parent, Done, Cases

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Order, Discipline, Personality

  Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

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• One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

  Thomas Dreier

  Intelligent, Creative, Elements

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• When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Talking, People, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Roots, People

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• I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

  Boris Becker

  My Children, Raised

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• The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

  Susie Orbach

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  Tanith Lee

  Mother, Fairy Stories, Invention

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• Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Discipline, Resentment

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• What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

  James Hansen

  Issues, Moral, Planets

  "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.

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• It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Government, Stupidity

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

  P. T. Barnum

  Laughing, Exhibitions, Flattery

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Smart, Play

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• Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

  A. S. W. Rosenbach

  Book, Reading, Wonderland

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• I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

  Annie Lennox

  Giving, Want, Protect

  "Why Annie Lennox is ready to move on". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2009.

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• You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

  R. J. Palacio

  Love Yourself, Life Is Good, Emotional

  "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Son, Branches, Lists

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

  Alice Meynell

  Years, Infancy Is, Long

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• It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

  Roddy Doyle

  Meetings, Knows

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• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, Two, Adults

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

  Joe Namath

  Thinking, Should Have, Speak

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• There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

  Murray Kempton

  Men, Earth, Cages

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  David Chase

  Kids, Thinking, Stories

  "Watch This: David Chase's Must-See Movies". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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