"Babies did not attract me, and I was……" — Rita Levi-Montalcini
"Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls."
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22 Quotes by Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini has 22 quotes on this site.
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You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened…
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Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them
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At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience- than when i was 20.
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It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.
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My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
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If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind…
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I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think…
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I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy…
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I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human…
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A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for…
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The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
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More Adolescent Quotes
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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