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It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.


Alice Walker

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DR. MARY S. CALDERONE Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
JESSICA VALENTI The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
ZENDAYA To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewe...
MARION NESTLE The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know ...
LAWRENCE JACKSON Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
SEAN PENN It is crucial to bridge the critical gap between manpower availability and employability by providin...
CHANDA KOCHHAR The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
IMAN I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearin...
M. WARD Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The government needs to support child-rearing families by distributing public funds fairly and equal...
KUNIKO INOGUCHI Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you ne...
ELON MUSK Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i...
LOUISE FRESCO Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procr...
PAM BONDI I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON It's partisanship rearing its ugly head. It says to me that some people are worried that this govern...
J. LOWELL STOLTZFUS March of the Penguins, ... the motion picture this summer that most passionately affirms traditional...
MICHAEL MEDVED My dad taught me something as a very young child -- never presume anything. But some big stuff is go...
GRACE POTTER This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lo...
ANNE LAMOTT I think we say we want sustainable business. This is sustainable, it's clean, people are well paid.
BETTY TAYLOR Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing th...
PHIL DONAHUE Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing...
JAMES E. FAUST Walker hit crucial shots. She got everybody going. She ignited us offensively and defensively. We we...
WENDEE SAINTSING You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are p...
KOFI ANNAN I don't think parents address the whole child. I think they fragment and they focus on education, an...
FRED BECKER I was in Catholic school where you were taught not to lie, ... It's hard to believe a young child at...
GARY WOLF I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.
JAMILA WOODS I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is differen...
SIRI HUSTVEDT If there's a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.
DAVID CUNLIFFE Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate p...
CHERIE BLAIR People are very concerned, and it's crucial that they stay alert.
KAMYAR DAHIM I don't think that kind of number is sustainable, but people are sure reacting positively.
JEFFREY SILBER I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact wid...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's...
TYLER PERRY There is something rearing in the works, but we are not sure what that is.
JAMIE HARRIS I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Ali...
HECTOR TOBAR Young people are being misled by certain people that are really not teachers. (The athletes) are rea...
ELLIS VALENTINE Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except...
DAVID BROOKS Love, strength and unity between mother, child and disease is more beautiful, powerful and sustainab...
SCOTTIE SOMERS My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and ma...
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PETER CARROLL I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are cru...
LEROY NEIMAN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be ...
JOHN LUBBOCK Somebody's going to have to step up there besides Ian Johnson. That will be crucial to our offensive...
CHRIS PETERSEN It is only truth that is sustainable.
SUNDAY ADELAJA There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventur...
CHRISTOPHER MILNE The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
PEGGY O'MARA It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic chara...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect fo...
IGOR STRAVINSKY The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect fo...
IGOR STRAVINSKY We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existenc...
DAVID CRYSTAL I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutel...
ANGELINA JOLIE So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to se...
ALAIN SERGILE It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, dayc...
DARELL HAMMOND It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for...
NICKY OPPENHEIMER People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
LAURA HARRIER Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to l...
SAM BROWNBACK [It is an appropriate symbol of the dedication Richardson has shown to young artists over the past 2...
FRANK SKINNER Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
DAN SHECHTMAN Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and w...
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CHARLIE FISCHER I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as ...
ROSE F. KENNEDY I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as ...
ROSE KENNEDY I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
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TOBIAS HILL When people are not taught the values of due process, that is encouraging fraud.
SUNDAY ADELAJA What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You...
FERGIE Every child should be taught how to think, read and write.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the ch...
AMBER HEARD A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES A. BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled
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KATHE KOJA [In answer to committee chairman's David Nimz's question, Walker said that other people are allowed ...
DALE ANDERSON Scott Walker is going to tell people the truth - not with bombastic and self-congratulatory language...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the ...
EMMA WATSON There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moro...
DAR WILLIAMS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It is a good sign for 2006 that these holiday destinations are now welcoming guests at sustainable l...
JAMES MURRAY Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more ...
PENG LIYUAN Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any me...
RUFI THORPE I've never thought of it before, but I did like Lewis Carroll when I was young. I read Alice in Wond...
EVAN JONES It wasn't something planned. Elections are coming up and the SA needs to realize that our representa...
ANDREA DOZIER I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is c...
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GREG JONES They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but th...
MIKE MARSH Now companies are convinced that the expansion is getting stronger and is sustainable and they are i...
ANTHONY CHAN am i insane" asked alice
"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father
LEWIS CARROLL Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are...
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I blow my nose. take off t...
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ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER