Christine Maggiore Quotes

Our children have excellent records of health, ... They've never had respiratory problems, flus, intractable colds, ear infections, nothing. So, our choices, however radical they may seem, are extremely well-founded.

Christine Maggiore

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• Health
• Choices
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• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Act
  • Legitimate
  • Lobbyists

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Economy

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hardest
  • Begin
  • Goodly

• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Up
  • She
  • Game

• Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Death
  • Before
  • Hardest

• I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Like

• Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Today

• If I see an ending, I can work backward.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Work

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Up

• Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • School

• The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you.

  

  Dom DeLuise
  • Life
  • Believe
  • She

• I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion - very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Good
  • Women
  • American

• I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Same

• I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.

  

  Peter Saul
  • Good
  • Long
  • Children

• Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Education

• A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Our children have excellent records of health, ... They've never had respiratory problems, flus, intractable colds, ear infections, nothing. So, our choices, however radical they may seem, are extremely well-founded.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Children
  • Health
  • Choices