Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (NoViolet Bulawayo) Quotes

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong.

Elizabeth Zandile Tshele

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• 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

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Education
  • Independent

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Children
  • Same

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Children
  • Hair

• I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Children
  • Marriage

• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Children
  • Family
  • Outside

• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Children
  • Job

• I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children

• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents

• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Children
  • Parents

• I believe that those closest to the children should be making the decisions about how funds should be spent, what the curriculum should look like, and what's the best way to help our students.

  

  David Ige
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Help

• A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Broken

• When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Me

• China is still a developing country with a myriad of tasks and challenges.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Country

• Being the face of 'Pink' is the greatest gig ever. The company has become like a little family for me in N.Y.C. I am constantly working with new people, and every day feels like the first day of school.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • People
  • Family
  • School

• When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong.

  

  Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
  • Children
  • Knowing
  • Escaping