"As children, we have a tenuous idea of……" — Adora Svitak
"As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard."
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49 Quotes by Adora Svitak
Adora Svitak has 49 quotes on this site.
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In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
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There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.'…
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If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much…
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV…
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children…
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Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot…
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Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!
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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
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No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can…
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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