Roger Waters Quotes

When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did Exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids.

Roger Waters Pink Floyd

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

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• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

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• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

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• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

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• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

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• People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

  

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• Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

  

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• Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

  

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

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• The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

  

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• When I speak about attention, I mean literally, "How much attention can we pay to ourselves?" As children, sometimes we cannot hold our attention for more than a couple of seconds. Over the years we are able to attend to more and more. Yet, we're seldom schooled to hold life in respect, to enlarge our ability to love, take care of, and be respectfully connected with all things around us.

  

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• That's the one thing I have to say to females. If you don't have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won't accept you.

  

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• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

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• I just did what I loved - flowers and rock n' roll. Pretty and punk. I was largely inspired by my dancing school classes and costumes.

  

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• When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did Exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Children
  • Hurt
  • Weaness