Maurice Sendak Quotes
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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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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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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Dance is fun! It lifts the spirit, stringthens the body, and stimulates the mind.
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Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
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That is actually a tough thing for collaboration because it’s art and it is coming from the heart, it’s very personal. It’s hard to be objective and not take offense when people don’t like your idea.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
