Colm O'Rourke Quotes
You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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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.
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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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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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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.
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
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Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.
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In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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Charlie and I were never blessed with children.
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
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Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
