Jack McDevitt Quotes

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

Jack McDevitt

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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Success

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• 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

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

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

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Important
  • Children
  • You

• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • You
  • Wall

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • Experience

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

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Environment

• We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • American
  • Community

• Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Teacher
  • Petty

• When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • People
  • Why
  • Running

• I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

  

  David Carson
  • Good
  • Angry

• If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Children