Evan Esar Quotes

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Evan Esar

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• I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Always
  • Priority

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Happy

• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Family
  • Help
  • Man

• Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Family
  • Me

• My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Family
  • New
  • New York

• I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Me
  • Inspire

• I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that's all, really.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Hope

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • High
  • Health

• Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Family
  • Power
  • Alone

• I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Organization

• I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me- I was a father.'

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Father
  • Words

• We think of the division of labor as being outdated, but in fact it has reemerged. In the early ‘80s, a mother was 43 times more likely than the father to leave the workplace for family responsibilities; more recently, a mom is 135 times more likely to leave the workplace for family responsibilities.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Thanks

• While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • May
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Different
  • Think
  • Feeling

• If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Up

• This is a celebration of a great historic figure.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Great
  • Celebration
  • Historic figure

• Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Children
  • Family
  • Father