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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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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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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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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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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Industrialization created the 'Father’s Catch-22': a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
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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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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.'
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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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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
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Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.
