Nursery School Quotes

• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  Natalie Portman

  Mom, Teacher, Husband

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", www.oocities.org. November 24, 1994.

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• I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

  Fay Weldon

  Lying, Congratulations, School

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• Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

  Michael Arditti

  Smart, School, Nurse

  Michael Arditti (1996). “Pagan and Her Parents”

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• Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

  Michael Sandel

  School, Kids, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

  Rick Riordan

  School, Nurse, Lovely

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

  Leon Botstein

  School, Clerks, Would Be

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• A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

  James E. Myers

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!

  Francesca Jackson

  School, Player, Class

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, School, Past

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• I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, School, Years

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• Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor...and just like a toddler, the bar patron wakes up the next day not remembering or caring how they behaved.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Caring, Next Day

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• I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.

  Michael Arditti

  Pain, Smart, Believe

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• Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

  John Cage

  Home, School, Nursing

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, School, Nurse

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

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• I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

  Debby Ryan

  Home, School, Nursing

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• As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where he went to nursery school. His family left there in the midsixties and moved to the Congo. After that, it was Ethiopia, and then Somalia, all fine places in his opinion. 'Let's save Africa and the Middle East for when I decide to quit living,' I said.

  David Sedaris

  Running, School, Middle East

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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