Georgi Plekhanov Quotes

Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.

Georgi Plekhanov

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Children
  • Black
  • Community

• I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Children
  • Hair

• I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Education

• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Own
  • Deeds

• As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Children
  • Woman

• 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

• I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Children

• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Children
  • Death

• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • School

• It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Excellence

• I believe that those closest to the children should be making the decisions about how funds should be spent, what the curriculum should look like, and what's the best way to help our students.

  

  David Ige
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Help

• We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Good
  • Children
  • Environment

• Finding extracurricular activities with your husband that are unrelated to children, family and work is a priority.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Work
  • Children
  • Family

• Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Children
  • Advice

• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Women
  • Children
  • Past

• Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

  

  Dominique Wilkins
  • Mind
  • College
  • Honor

• Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.

  

  Georgi Plekhanov
  • Children
  • Adults
  • Imitate