Quotes with step-parents

Quotes 341 till 360 of 435.

  • Albert J. Nock The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Alice Miller The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Artur Davis The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • B. F. Skinner The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • King Edward VIII The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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  • Cam Newton The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Anthony Trollope The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Sir William Osler The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • William Shakespeare The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • C. Everett Koop There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Billy Bragg There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Butler There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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