Barry Nolan Quotes
There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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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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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
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... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
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Americans are worried about climate change because they can already witness its effects. They see its signature in the drought in California, where record heat has dried the state's fertile soil.
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My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.
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I'd rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I'm good at preparation.
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What we believe is that health care should be a right in this country; I happen to believe that means that we should be for single-payer.
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There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world.
