Bel Kaufman Quotes

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Bel Kaufman

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • God
  • Half

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Beginning

• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Hard
  • Get
  • Along

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Saved
  • Ours

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Black
  • Smart
  • Perspective

• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Mail
  • Viagra

• I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • America
  • Happy
  • Television

• The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • You
  • Start
  • First

• Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science

• You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Why

• I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • People
  • Movie
  • Feels

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Family

• Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Children
  • Pretty

• Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Children
  • Connoisseurs