Ninian Smart Quotes
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Ninian Smart
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
Adam Grant
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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
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
J. C. Watts
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What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
Danica McKellar
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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Nancy Reagan
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
Salman Rushdie
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I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
Kate Middleton
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
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I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
Vanessa Carlton
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You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
E. Joseph Cossman
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'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
Nalo Hopkinson
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It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they'll be surprised once they do 'come out' how many other people have had similar experiences.
Matt Haig
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
Yoko Ono
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
Walter Isaacson
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Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Ninian Smart
