Adam Gopnik Quotes
We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood - but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.
Adam Gopnik
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
Vanessa Paradis
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe
I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
Zendaya
The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
Karen Bender
I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
J. J. Watt
I do let the kids play on devices when we eat out - it's better than being thrown out of a restaurant.
Anne Wojcicki
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
Augusten Burroughs
'I am ready to obey as a child; - but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.'
Anthony Trollope
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood - but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.
Adam Gopnik
