Cathy Freeman Quotes

I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.

Cathy Freeman

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• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Suffering

• 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

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

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Always
  • Revolution

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Children
  • Want
  • Know

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • People
  • Government
  • Grow

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Forever

• I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Children
  • America
  • Food

• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Kind
  • British

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in power just a few hours away from Italy by boat.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Power
  • Government
  • Italian

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Action

• Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Christianity

• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • American
  • Air
  • Innocence

• Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Dream
  • Congress
  • Librarian

• I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Government