Mal Peet Quotes
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
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
Taya Kyle -
You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
Gail Collins -
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Yoshihiko Noda -
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long -
I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung -
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling -
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
Garrison Keillor -
If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
Mara Wilson -
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Nancy Pearcey -
We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara -
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
Malala Yousafzai -
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 -
The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
Jack Zipes
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Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
Bill Berry R.E.M. -
Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.
Liam Neeson -
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
Immanuel Kant -
Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
Sean Parker -
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
Antonio Negri -
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