Children Quotes - Page 40

• I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

  John B. Larson

  School, Common Sense, Trying

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• The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

  John Landis

  Ideas, Serious, Different

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

  Joseph Lancaster

  School, Parent, Pounds

  Joseph Lancaster (1805). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.180

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• I became a children's author by accident.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Accidents

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• It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

  R. L. Stine

  Book, Writing, People

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

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• 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

  People, Community, Kitchen

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• There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

  Richie Sambora

  Love Is, Papa, Our Children

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• I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

  Ruth Simmons

  My Family, Disputes, Organize

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• Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

  Zoe Saldana

  Balance, Needs, Littles

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• I remember when I was younger. Dad's agent came round, and I asked if she would represent me. She didn't represent children at the time, but I wouldn't let her leave the house until she agreed. I've always been quite headstrong.

  Eleanor Tomlinson

  Dad, House, Agents

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

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• Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

  Bryn Terfel

  Mother, Work Out, Community

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• The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

  Don Tapscott

  Thinking, Play, World

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.4, McGraw Hill Professional

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• My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

  Hunter Tylo

  Asking, Littles, More Time

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• There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

  John Thune

  Country, Years, Two

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

  Meg Tilly

  Acting, Firsts, Whole Life

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• I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

  Meg Tilly

  Thinking, Important, Wonderful

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• As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, "Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!"

  Natsuki Takaya

  Reading, Hey, Draws

  "Something About Shojo". Interview with Coco Masters, content.time.com. August 10, 2006.

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• My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

  Tracey Ullman

  Nice, Toys, Housekeeping

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• My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Father, Men, Talking

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• When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

  Eddie Vedder

  Real, Nice, Eye

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• I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.

  George Voinovich

  Mass Destruction, Bully, Everyday

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• My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

  Amy Waldman

  Issues, Parent, Strange

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• I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.

  Amy Waldman

  Book, Wrestling, Plot

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• I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Mistake, Made

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• My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Husband, Mistake, Kids

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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