Ellen Palmer Allerton Quotes

Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.

Ellen Palmer Allerton

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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.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• I'd love my children no matter what.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Love
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Children
  • Taken
  • Understanding

• It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• 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.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • World
  • Help

• No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Legend

• By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Trying

• At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.

  

  Anthony Powell
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Promise

• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children
  • High
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Sigh
  • Edited

• I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Ham

• Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.

  

  Ellen Palmer Allerton
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Face