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

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• My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Children
  • School
  • Safety

• It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Story
  • Resolution

• I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Children
  • Want
  • Food

• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationship

• 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
  • Up
  • Children
  • Book

• 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
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• 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
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Children

• 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
  • Men
  • Children
  • Death

• I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Life
  • Children
  • Dream

• 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
  • Children
  • Small

• I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Children
  • Hate

• 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
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• 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
  • Live
  • Children
  • Party

• 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
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.

  

  Warren Farrell

• The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

  

  Albert Murray
  • Nature
  • Progress

• Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.

  

  Willie Parker
  • Think
  • Scenario

• 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
  • Children
  • Civilization
  • Inheritance