Edmund Morris Quotes
Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature. Lacking that, he also lost his foresight, and unwittingly depleted the inheritances of his children. “We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.
Edmund Morris
Quotes to Explore
I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.
Karen Elson
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
Salman Rushdie
Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
A. A. Milne
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.
Warren Farrell
Why then, if these books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book, that is thus early impressed, lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
Fisher Ames
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.
Karen Civil
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.
Daphne Guinness
I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.
Matt Dillon
As I tell my children, the first thing is always health. Get sleep, don't party, don't do drugs or drink. If your body is right, then you will be right, and if your body is wrong, you will be wrong. Live like a Buddhist monk!
Colm Wilkinson
I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.
Li Bingbing
I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.
David Ige
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
Franz Grillparzer
I just want to be known as funny.
Jim Gaffigan
It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
Franz Wright
Due to the unrelenting 'self-promoting' actions of the committee's investigative coordinator, I have been unable to implement the standards of professional conduct I have been accustomed to at the United States attorney's office,
Dan Burton
Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature. Lacking that, he also lost his foresight, and unwittingly depleted the inheritances of his children. “We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.
Edmund Morris
