Michael Gurian Quotes

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

Michael Gurian

• Children
• Forget
• Ambition
• Relax

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• Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Military

• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• 'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Fun

• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Me
  • Attitude

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Skin

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
  • Today
  • Forget

• Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Poets

• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Consequences

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Grateful

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Enjoy Life

• Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationships

• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• 'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Commitment
  • Ambition
  • Keeper

• The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Children
  • Growth
  • Twilight

• I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Good
  • Women
  • Wisdom

• Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

  

  Petrarch
  • Enough
  • Wanting
  • Attain

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Movie
  • Star

• As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Children
  • Forget
  • Ambition