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Children Quotes by Daniel Handler
- I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that…
- Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a…
- A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing…
- It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked…
- Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were…
- Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!
- The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with…
- The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need…
- Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to…
- Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his…
- It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz