Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Long
  • Art
  • Job

• The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Promise

• If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Today
  • Year
  • Memory

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Find
  • Environmental

• When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • She
  • High
  • Cool

• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Long
  • Wish

• I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • You
  • Vote
  • Republican

• I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Makeup

• I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Politics
  • Idea

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • College
  • Literature

• The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Words

• If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I am not advising my readers to refuse to have their children vaccinated, since you now have to take vaccination into consideration because of the prominence of it in society. It is very possible, however, that science itself will in time discover the unfortunate side effects of many such procedures and begin to reevaluate the entire subject.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Time
  • Children
  • Society

• Honestly, when I was a little girl, I would watch wrestling with my brother, like, all the time. The Ultimate Warrior was my favorite. I used the have the biggest crush on him!

  

  Dana Davis
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Brother

• Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Approval