Children Quote by Michael Oakeshott Download Open image ““a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.”” — Michael Oakeshott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children
“How can a country change if the people don’t want to change their thoughts or lifestyle?” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.” — Rex Resurreccion Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“People can change... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.” — Rochelle Maya Callen Copy Share Image
“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,… — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
“A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I can change nearly everything about myself. I can run from my children and trade in my spouse, move to another country and raise… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“A child worries about what would make him happy, but a man does what is necessary.” — Olan Thorensen Copy Share Image
“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“For there is not so complete and perfect a part that we know of nature, which does not owe the being it has, and… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most puzzling things… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“To theorize’ means, to see as a whole. The actual is a small part of the whole, or a single aspect of it, which,… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“the first rule of Moritz Haupt for interpreting the classics,—‘Man soll nicht übersetzen.’ [‘Do not translate’:” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one was call’d.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“England in August 1914 was more of a state than she was during the great industrial strikes of 1911–1912.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“in modern philosophy, the first glimpse of the true view of the conception of ‘might is right’ as applying to government is to be found in the political writings of Spinoza. Briefly it is this. Government, as such, has a limited sphere of activity. This limitation is self-limitation; and the proper province of government comprehends all that it is able… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share
“The process of experiencing is well described by Goethe when he says that our life is made up of our connections with the world about us, and that we must each spin our own web and sit at the centre to catch what we can.[21] The web itself is made up of past experiences, and each new connection with the… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share
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 and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share