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I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
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Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
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Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
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All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
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If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
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There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
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Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape. Rob Sheffield
memories old-friends
Old friends are memories personified. Richard Paul Evans
memories real giving
I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inapproprite suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date. And, if memory serves, you did say you'd give me a fair chance once I let you clean out my trust fund." "I didn't clean it out," I scoffed. Richelle Mead
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That’s the last time you’re going to kiss me,” I warned when it ended. He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. “So you say.
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Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. Russell Hoban
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew. Roz Chast
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I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart. Ronnie Corbett
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Memories are the best things in life, I think. Romy Schneider
memories ideas imagination
This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain. Umberto Eco
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underscores the importance of increasing efforts to support and expand early childhood learning. Richard Riley
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It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. William Gaddis
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Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London. Tracy Chevalier
childhood extremes
My childhood was extreme. Tori Amos
childhood firsts steps
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. Ursula K. Le Guin
childhood belief spoiled
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies
childhood hated whole
I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. Sandra Bullock
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Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.
childhood way different
I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. Wil Wheaton