Kevin Kwan Quotes

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

Kevin Kwan

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• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• At the end of the day, it's all about money.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Day
  • End

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Brand

• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Death
  • Child

• If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Movie
  • You

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Skin

• The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Money
  • First
  • Been

• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Father

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Different
  • Children
  • Help

• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Father
  • Beautiful
  • Saint

• I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Live
  • Love
  • Want

• Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Writing
  • School
  • Character

• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Children
  • Money
  • Father