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“I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.”

Children Felt Interesting Acting Trouble Needed Focused Compare Stay Focused

Author:Diane Lane

“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

Ifs Children Home Christian Wish Term Christianity Trouble Miracle Our Children Your Children Gracious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.”

Way Children Young Parent Trouble Raised Discrimination Noise Segregation Young Children Racial Discrimination

Author:John Lewis

“Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.”

Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

“If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.”

Ifs Children Done Faces Success Names Trouble Our Children Glad Your Children Grandchildren Counting Times Of Trouble

Author:Ann Landers

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.”

People World Years Wells Children Real Remember Grows Forget Growing Up Growing Trouble Grew Up Treats Inferiors

Author:Walt Disney

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.”

Way Mind Children Long Dream Felt Answers Trouble Preaching Youngsters Delinquency Lecturing

Author:Walt Disney

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

Way Children Long Felt Trouble

Author:Walt Disney

“Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.”

Children Trouble Sweet Spring Bud

Author:Euripides

“If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.”

Ifs World Children Women Trouble Source If I Could Remakes

Book:The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

Source: The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

“Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.”

Children Made Mother Mistake Trouble Land I Realized Dry Womb Made A Mistake Dry Land

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.”

Believe Children Two I Believe Growing Up Growing Trouble Brother Responsible Older Brother Older Sister Youngest Child

Book:The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander

Source: The Underland Chronicles #1: Gregor the Overlander