Charles Clarke (Charles Rodway Clarke) Quotes

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

Charles Clarke

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
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  • Way

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Good
  • Important
  • You

• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • High
  • Singing

• I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Children
  • Always
  • Selfish

• Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Right
  • Obligation

• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

  

  Angie Martinez
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  • Time
  • School

• I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Time
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• I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
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  • School
  • High

• As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
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  • Children
  • Wife

• I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

  

  Chris Colfer
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• It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • Children
  • Drug

• Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • Life
  • School

• During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • School
  • High
  • Focus

• Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.

  

  Ella Mai
  • People
  • Important

• There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
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  • God
  • Different

• My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals for my career from the time I was a very young woman. I wanted to win a local award, then I wanted a state or national award. Small press, big press. Some women fantasize about their weddings, their husbands, and children. I fantasized about what I wanted to accomplish with my books.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Children
  • Book
  • Moving

• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Right

• I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Photography

• The toughest part of my career was at the 2011 World Cup and 2012 Olympics and wanting so much to play and physically contribute - but having to understand and realize that it's just not my time.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

  

  Charles Clarke
  • Important
  • Children
  • School