Brad Henry Quotes
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I give the children education.
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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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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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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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I like children - fried.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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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.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
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She giggles at the thought and realizes quite suddenly that Donovan is religion to her.
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You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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A strict master will not have understanding sons.
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
