Eva Moskowitz Quotes
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.
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I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.
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We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.
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All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
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I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!
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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
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When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
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One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
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Monarchs do this quite a bit but we don't how much they do it.
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I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.
