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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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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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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All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
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Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.
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There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.
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People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.
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I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.
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I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
