Cornelia Funke Quotes

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  

  Wally Schirra
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• You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

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

  

  Yoko Ono
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• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
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• As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

  

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

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• I'd love my children no matter what.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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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
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• When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
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  • Earth

• My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

  

  Naveen Jain
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  • Three

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
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• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Children
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• I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

  

  Carlos Delgado
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• The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
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• Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

  

  Cornelia Funke
  • Children
  • Earth