Carrie Tollefson (Carrie Anne Tollefson) Quotes

Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.

Carrie Tollefson

• Children
• Learn
• Active
• Mommy
• Olympic Runner

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Country
  • Learn

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

  

  Indira Varma
  • Children
  • Why
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Children
  • Company
  • Others

• One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Children
  • Confidence
  • Child

• In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Children
  • Home
  • Nice

• The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Learn
  • Start
  • Piano

• Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Active
  • Worldwide
  • Iranians

• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Now
  • Teenagers

• I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, 'Oh, that’s different from my perspective – tell me more.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Different
  • Children
  • Perspective

• There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Work
  • Children
  • Business

• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Children
  • Free
  • Fear

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

  

  Katherine Parkinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Why
  • Kind

• When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Done

• I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Literature

• Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.

  

  Carrie Tollefson
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Active