Ellen Palmer Allerton Quotes
Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.
Quotes to Explore
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.
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I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral I'm my only friend of mine And love is just a piece of time in the world in the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again.
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No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
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I am a fortunate man in that all three of my daughters are exceptional. Very high beings, very smart people, very wonderful and very brilliant, very beautiful. They're all artists.
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I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.
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I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.
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As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street.
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When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
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You always want to have a mix of conservatives and liberals on a panel, especially on election night.
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Just have fun, and just play hard, and just practice a lot.
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Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.
