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.
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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.
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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.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.
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President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
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Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
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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.
