Evan Esar Quotes

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

Evan Esar

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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

Nate Parker
- Time
- Long
- School
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- Good
- Believe
As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

Yami Gautam
- History
- Dream
- Child
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

Ursula Burns
- Good
- Writing
- School
A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

Daniel Cormier
- True
- Fight
- Losing
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
- Dad
- Being
- Choice