"I keep thinking, we teach children to use……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!"
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49 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye has 49 quotes on this site.
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Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling,…
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper…
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your…
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the…
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on…
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we…
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
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Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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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 grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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