Edmund de Waal Quotes
And rather impressive – I want to be bourgeois and ask how you find time for five children, a husband and a lover?
Quotes to Explore
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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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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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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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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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
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When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
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Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
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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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If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
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The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.
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I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.
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Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.
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As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.
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I always have issues with trust.
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I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.
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And rather impressive – I want to be bourgeois and ask how you find time for five children, a husband and a lover?
