Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Or at least of fending him off for long enough that we can sweep in heroically like the Seventh Cavalry.’ Burning tipis and shooting women and children, I thought.

Ben Aaronovitch

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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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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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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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• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• When you have girl children they torture you!

  

  Pat Benatar
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• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• 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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• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
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• The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

  

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• Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.

  

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• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  

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• 'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'

  

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• In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

  

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• I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

  

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• I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

  

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• Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

  

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• My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

  

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• As I tell my children, the first thing is always health. Get sleep, don't party, don't do drugs or drink. If your body is right, then you will be right, and if your body is wrong, you will be wrong. Live like a Buddhist monk!

  

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• Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

  

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• Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.

  

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• Or at least of fending him off for long enough that we can sweep in heroically like the Seventh Cavalry.’ Burning tipis and shooting women and children, I thought.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Children
  • Shooting
  • Cavalry