Lorna Luft Quotes
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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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.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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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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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
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Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.
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I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.
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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
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The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
