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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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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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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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I have two children, and I'm very, very peaceful.
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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.
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If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
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I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.
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I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.
