Martin Gardner Quotes

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine-in fact one shudders to imagine-a child of today reading and enjoying it.

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• The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

  

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• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

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• We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

  

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• People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

  

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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.

  

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• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

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• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

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• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

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• When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

  

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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  

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• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

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• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  

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• My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

  

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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

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• Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.

  

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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

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• The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.

  

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• While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I

  

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• Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

  

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• Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

  

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• Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

  

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• Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine-in fact one shudders to imagine-a child of today reading and enjoying it.

  

  Martin Gardner
  • Children
  • Today
  • Reading