Hugh Lofting Quotes
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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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.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.
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I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
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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.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.
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Marriage has nothing to do with feelings; it just gives children a name.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.
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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.
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I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
