Ella Maillart Quotes

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Ella Maillart

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• Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Charity

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • House
  • Parents
  • Man

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Money
  • Simple

• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Realize

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Child
  • Innocent

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Kind

• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • Experience

• Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • She
  • Career
  • Parents

• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • People
  • Men
  • Real

• My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Parents

• In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

  

  A. N. Wilson

• I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

  

  Van Jones
  • Live
  • Country
  • Rights

• We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Children
  • House
  • Parents