Beverly Cleary Quotes
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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I like starting. It's pretty cool.
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How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?
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I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.
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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
