Stephen Fry Quotes

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

Stephen Fry

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• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • World
  • Children
  • Special

• My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Rest
  • Skill

• Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

  

  Charles Fillmore
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Daily

• We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Children

• I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Children
  • Real
  • Action

• You don't really know what your children are made of until the mommy engine of the family shuts down, and they are forced to step up and become the care-takers.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Death

• What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.

  

  Betsy Beers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Space

• On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Wine

• I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Thinking
  • Faithful
  • Infidelity

• We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Children
  • Situation
  • Lawmakers

• I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Spirit
  • Dangerous

• There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Country
  • Attention

• As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Children