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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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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We're playing upside-down baseball. But that's been our story. There's always somebody doing something he's not accustomed to doing.
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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.
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Social media is one of the most under-rated business tools, in my opinion. It's an amazing cockpit for any CEO. I can narrate any number of stories how it has helped me to reach out to customers, dealers, protesting workers, and even security guards.
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
