Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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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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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
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Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
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I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
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Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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In the end, we are our choices.
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The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate ... are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making good wine.
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'Well, what do you know,' Pham said. 'Butterflies in jackboots.'
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The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.
