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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Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious 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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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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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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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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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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If you're a member of this team, you should be proud. But you should also realize that the plans Nick has for the future might not include you.
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There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
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You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
