Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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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.
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Peace is its own reward.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
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I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
