Maurice Sendak Quotes

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Maurice Sendak

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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

Otis Rush
- Time
- World
- She
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp
- World
- Mother
- Father
One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

Wagner Moura
- World
- Country
- Kids
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carl Jung
- Up
- Children
- Talk
While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

Hans Rosling
- World
- Long
- Small
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Barney Oliver
- World
- Energy
- Present