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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood secret fatherhood
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller
childhood facts matter
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. Michael Gruber
childhood
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. Jesse Metcalfe
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Gaston Bachelard
childhood lasts
Childhood lasts all through life.
childhood world lasts
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
majority world shouting
All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority. Thomas Reed
majority able should
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress. Tom Udall
majority speak individual
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. John Paul Stevens
majority comedy infatuation
The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation. Matt Smith
majority ends rejects
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin Philip Larkin
majority opinion
When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions. Mark Twain
majority party since single
Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition. Zalmay Khalilzad
majority tactics polite
We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority. Eve Ensler
majority argument jokes
... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes. George Eliot
memory mostly
My father's memory is impaired, but mostly he's just an old man. Joan Felt
memory rest
Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life. Manny Lawson
memory mind tape
When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.
memory recall worrying year
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
mother able teach
My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did. Archie Panjabi
mother pain doors
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother. Barbara Mertz
mother children home
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success. Ayelet Waldman
mother children mistake
I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.
mother daughter two
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
mother children husband
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.
mother jeans dresses
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.
mother children passion
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth. Ayn Rand
mother children doors
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights. Brenda Ueland
passed
Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. Publilius Syrus
passed
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. John Bunyan
passed point work
I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder. Mike Tice
quite tired
I usually get side-aches when I am really tired and or when I am not quite warmed up. Bill Rodgers
quite
Quite frankly, they just haven't been doing anything lately. John Pilger
quite
Quite frankly, I don't think he wanted to be here anymore. Brad Childress
quite saw seen site
I've never seen anything quite like the site I saw here. George Ryan
quite red ten twelve
We have quite a lot. I think we have ten or twelve colors. The varieties of blue, the varieties of red and of burgundy.
quite time
If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap. Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
quite run
We've had quite a run in the Caribbean.
quite somebody
So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience. Philippe Perrin
quite
I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe. Maisie Williams
taught women-bashing men-bashing
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. Coco Chanel
taught students medical
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. E. B. White
taught-us leader flags
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing. Tom Robbins
taught-us study one-thing
If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. Neil Gaiman
taught virtue
Is virtue something that can be taught? Plato
taught-us mind paper
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.
taught team winning
She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.
taught-us agency way
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do. Gordon B. Hinckley
taught-us use brian
Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument. Jerry Harrison