Saul Bellow Quotes

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• It takes three to make a child.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Child
  • Three
  • Takes

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • School
  • Together

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Earth
  • Boy
  • Fire

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • School
  • Continue

• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Future
  • Serious
  • Child

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Law
  • Child

• I was bullied at school.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • Bullied

• I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Books

• My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • School
  • Mother
  • Dad

• If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Kids
  • Poetry

• One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Work
  • Wisdom

• One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

  

  Xunzi
  • People
  • Giving
  • Equality

• We are in the the entertainment business, and we all know if you are top of the tree, you get big money.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • School
  • Child