"Children say they are unhappy in every language……" — Jay Griffiths
"Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots."
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25 Quotes by Jay Griffiths
Jay Griffiths has 25 quotes on this site.
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A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our…
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Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without…
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We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for…
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A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
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As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
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Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not…
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I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.
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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
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The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music,…
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More Children Quotes
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one of 18,494 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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