Quotes of: American-children Keyword

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

Jack White

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

James Gray

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with...

Michael Oren

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife str...

The Feminine Mystique

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fie...

Boris Johnson

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of...

Gary Snyder

Satan: You have spilt the blood of the innocence, now begins 2,000,000 years of darkness! Chef: [sarcastically] Oh, good job, Mrs. Broslofski! Thanks a lot! Sheila Broslofski: [innocently] I was just trying to make the world a better place for childr...

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The Children of Men

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

Education for Life: Preparing Children to Meet Today's Challenges

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.

The Children Act

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

Brian Jacques

From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.

I Learn from Children

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift