Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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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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My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
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It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
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As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.
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It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.
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The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
