Maurice Sendak Quotes

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

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• Kids
• Truth
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• Nobody wants to give up good players.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Give

• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Remember
  • Man
  • White

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Tax
  • Effective
  • Global

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn't realize how much I'd become her. I pass a mirror, and am surprised by how much I look like her.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Mother
  • Emotional
  • Mirror

• Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • She
  • Taken
  • Wisdom

• History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • History

• The military clock is ticking. It can be stopped, of course, if a change in behavior of the Serbian side is produced in a very short period of time.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Change
  • Behavior
  • Military Clock

• Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Truth