"The truth is that I am enslaved... in……" — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
"The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children."
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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16 Quotes by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Ashton-Warner has 16 quotes on this site.
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I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
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There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
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It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However…
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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand…
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You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to…
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When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of…
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I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a…
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A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
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When I teach people, I marry them.
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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot…
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I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
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More Affair Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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