Nancy Mitford Quotes

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

Nancy Mitford

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• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Death
  • Sex

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Time
  • First

• These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Night

• I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Play
  • Doing
  • First

• Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Game

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• In the real world, children love me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Support
  • Popular
  • First

• The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • First
  • Year
  • NASA

• As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Important
  • Children
  • School

• The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationship

• The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children
  • High
  • Quality

• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Cool

• I don't wish to embarrass anyone.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Wish
  • Embarrass

• Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Children
  • First
  • Waffles