"Children are sent to school to be civilized,……" — Robert Fulghum
"Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise."
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148 Quotes by Robert Fulghum
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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and…
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand…
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I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When…
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To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To…
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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of…
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs…
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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form…
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Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the…
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If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a…
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The…
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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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