Jules Michelet Quotes
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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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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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.
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When you have children, that's your main focus.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Children are our future, and God loves the children.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
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To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.
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The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
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My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.
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Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.
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There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
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My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
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I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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I usually only draw myself in down periods. I do, actually. I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?
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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
