Jose Rizal Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
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We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
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My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.
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The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.
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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
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My dad had this incredible kindness that oozed through every part of his body. He had the ability to look at life positively in spite of what he went through. He was a Holocaust survivor. When he was 15-1/2 years old, he was liberated from the Dachau Concentration Camp by American soldiers who risked a lot to save people they had never met.
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Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.
