Children Quote by Amanda Ripley Download Open image ““Kids meet the expectations you set for them,”” — Amanda Ripley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children
“It is children's desire to be good for us that warrants our trust, not their ability to perform to our expectations.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear.” — M.L. Stedman Copy Share Image
“Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world,..They see more than adults, believe in more, are honest and will… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“They're kids, all they really want is attention and kindness, you know? That's what every kid wants." "And” — Kim Holden Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be.” — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“If children are not exposed to opportunity, it is hard for them to know it is there.” — Karen Gross Copy Share Image
Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events;… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Since 9/11, the U.S. government has sent over $23 billion to states and cities in the name of homeland security. Almost none of that… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“In almost every other developed country, the schools with the poorest students had more teachers per student; the opposite was true in only four… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“These days, we tend to think of disasters as acts of God and government. Regular people only feature into the equation as victims, which… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Economists had found an almost one-to-one match between PISA scores and a nation's long term economic growth. Many other things influenced economic growth, of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
