Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Growing

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Life
  • Book
  • Bible

• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Records
  • Hits
  • Legendary

• This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Now

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Acceptance

• Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Discovery

• Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Writing
  • Why

• If the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Devil

• Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • War
  • Capitalists

• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Real
  • Technology

• The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Important
  • Simple

• There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

  

  Alexander Sutherland Neill
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Parent