Gerald Scarfe Quotes
Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill
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In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
Harpo Marx
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
Samantha Harvey
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I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.
Laura Dern
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
Gary Lineker
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
Salman Rushdie
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Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
S. Jay Olshansky
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There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
Barry Sonnenfeld
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
Lana Turner
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I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
Rachel Johnson
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The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.
Warren Farrell
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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
Aldo Leopold
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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
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All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
Bob Ney
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When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.
Jennifer Hudson
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I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
Laurie Helgoe
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I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
Alain Robert
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
Elon Musk
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
Gerald Scarfe