Shana Alexander Quotes

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

Shana Alexander

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Kids

• 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
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Myself

• 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
  • Children
  • Years
  • Graduation

• 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
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• 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
  • Children
  • Family
  • Understand

• 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
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• 'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Children

• Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Money

• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • Children
  • Party

• In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Children

• I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Life
  • Children
  • Dream

• It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Excellence

• The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

  

  William Blum
  • Men
  • Children
  • School

• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Letters
  • God's Name

• I'm extremely lucky that my passion - making and creating - is also my career.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Career
  • Passion

• I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • School
  • Remember
  • Athletic

• I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to be around.

  

  John David Washington
  • Trying

• A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Children
  • Modern
  • Letters