"You know, if you're at home with children,……" — Nathaniel Philbrick
"You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points."
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Nathaniel Philbrick
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14 Quotes by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick has 14 quotes on this site.
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Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When…
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People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work…
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Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a…
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the…
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
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In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the…
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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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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