"Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by……" — Kate Morton
"Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales."
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114 Quotes by Kate Morton
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say.…
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While…
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning…
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them,…
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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what…
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it…
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More Children Quotes
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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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