Marla Gibbs Quotes
We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.Marla Gibbs
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
Mallory Jansen -
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day -
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
Panayiotis Zavos
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling -
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson -
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
Carl Bernstein -
I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
Iris Apfel -
I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama -
When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
Edmund Morgan
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I'd love my children no matter what.
Victoria Osteen -
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
J. C. Watts -
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
O. R. Melling -
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp -
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
Laura Schlessinger
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their children; and by most, unreasonable...
John Locke Nazareth -
Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.
M. J. Ryan -
Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
Hamid Karzai -
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
Earl King -
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
Mark Ruffalo -
We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.
Marla Gibbs