C. S. Lewis Quotes
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.C. S. Lewis
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
Aaron Sorkin -
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.
Malorie Blackman -
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
Gayle Forman -
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling -
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
Patricia Polacco
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost -
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Iris Johansen
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore -
I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
Ted Danson -
I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
Indira Varma -
Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
Olly Murs -
If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
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Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.
Christine Flores -
Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.
Dong Young-bae Big Bang -
You have to ask people for help. I wasn't good at that.
Ann-Marie Campbell -
Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?
David Beckham -
I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.
Barbara Bretton -
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
C. S. Lewis