Craig Nicholls Quotes
I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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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.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Children are all foreigners.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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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.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.
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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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When my record comes on, you know that's a DJ Khaled record. That's my formula, and the people love it.
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To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
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I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.
