Shana Alexander Quotes
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana Alexander
Quotes to Explore
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Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
Rachel Bloom
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Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Natalie Babbitt
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
Patricia Polacco
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
Gail Carson Levine
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'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
Nalo Hopkinson
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
Bayard Rustin
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We ain't got nothing without love.
That's all we'll have when the world is through
Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.
Helen Keller
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I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.
M.I.A.
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My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' By the time they left, they understood why, because I had done the second act of 'West Side Story' and the first act of 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' playing all the parts. In many ways, that's what I'm still doing. I'm just getting paid better.
Johnny Galecki
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana Alexander
