Eda LeShan Quotes

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

Eda LeShan

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• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• It takes three to make a child.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Child
  • Three
  • Takes

• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Live
  • City
  • Born

• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • She
  • Kids

• I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Always

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Court

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Child

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Child

• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Growing
  • Best
  • Child

• These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Night

• I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Child
  • Rebel

• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Change
  • Wish
  • Child

• The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Like
  • Chance

• Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Believe
  • Child
  • Love Is

• The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Advantage
  • Rediscover

• We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

  

  Eda LeShan
  • Chance
  • Child
  • Born