Alice Miller
Related [Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themse... LINDA PERLSTEIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES OSCAR WILDE If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with tho... LUKASZ LANIECKI And already We overtook them with chastisement, but they were not submissive to their Lord, nor do t... QURAN They were all talking about this amongst themselves - but it was not something that they shared with... WILL LEITCH ELBERT HUBBARD JEFFREY ARCHER Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? T... BEVERLY ENGEL Somehow it seems that all parents are certain that they themselves were victims of abuse in school a... SAYED KASHUA They were not Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, they were stealing from chi... GARY GAMBARDELLA In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, ... PARMINDER NAGRA JEFFREY FRY ROSALIND WISEMAN I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea... AL ROKER This investigation demonstrates the need for parents to educate themselves and their children about ... BOB BREEDEN ROBERT LUCAS, JR. The more often kids had dinner with their parents the less likely they were to smoke, drink and use ... JOSEPH CALIFANO ...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien... ELDER PORPHYRIOS Why the delay? What were the police doing investigating themselves when that was not their role? GARETH PEIRCE Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has no... YITZHAK SHAMIR Keeping children from smoking starts with parents and their behavior. Some parents say they disappro... KARL HILL KIRK CAMERON DAN LIPINSKI MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH CHARLES READE CHARLES READE JOHN LOCKE JOHN LOCKE JOHN LOCKE AMY CHUA An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in ord... LUKASZ LANIECKI What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted wa... CAROL ADAMS Then they turned to themselves and said: Surely you yourselves are the unjust; / Then they were made... QURAN Travel surveys show that parents want to spend more time with their children, and, believe it or not... DOUG BENNETT Many parents mistreat their children by abandoning them and going to look for men or women. My offic... ANNET KURUI ERICH FROMM I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from thei... IRVIN D. YALOM INGRID NEWKIRK GEORGE BURNS EDMUND MORGAN SAMUEL JOHNSON ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and bind... EUDORA WELTY ORSON PRATT All families were like that, with their private damage they kept among themselves, ghosts they lived... BOBBY UNDERWOOD MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN For newly infected people, their issue is not considering themselves at risk. If they're not a man w... KATHY HALL EZEKIEL EMANUEL I always pondered why do people change their cars as soon as they have problems with it while they n... MINA TADROS C. WRIGHT MILLS The fact that parents who smoke can exert a protective anti-smoking effect on their children might s... CHRISTINE JACKSON MARGARET MITCHELL Many of the statements made concerning this matter are inaccurate or exaggerated. Clearly, there is ... DAVID SHERMAN It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY Miller Place argues they do fine. Maybe they do since many of their children go to pre-school. But n... ROGER TILLES They had to defend themselves. MARGHERITA AMODEO Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that ... LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, t... JEFFREY BRYANT The kids really wanted to win this game for themselves. Their defense has improved from the beginnin... SEAN HARVEY Parents in China are very strict with their children. They say you should do this, you shouldn't do ... ZHANG JIE They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that t... BIBLE To lovers out there....DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS C. JOYBELL C. Active adults see themselves as being much younger than they are. And they're much more active than ... CASEY HILL SUSAN B. ANTHONY SOCRATES Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why m... THOMAS S. SZASZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me... THOMAS S. SZASZ ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Eve... THE MIRROR OF MAYBE And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust. QURAN It wasn't that we wanted to bring them the things because they were pathetic and couldn't do anythin... DAN ELDON My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular th... THOMAS STEINBECK The girls were very excited with how they placed, and they celebrated with Caleb and Bjorn for scori... BOB ISBELL They want to wrap themselves in 9/11 and wrap themselves in the flag. But the fact of the matter is ... JERROLD NADLER This will help all Americans -- it will help parents choose the right medication for their children ... EILEEN SHAPIRO MICHAEL M. HONDA STEVEN PINKER The parents get stigmatized as not having control over their kids when they can't get them to school... JAMES WYATT When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comf... PAMELA DRUCKERMAN It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classr... PAUL WEYRICH SHELDON LEE GLASHOW How many would do the 'right thing' and attend school? Why, in fact, do we require school attendance... DAVID L. KATZ ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN As a person who feels at their best when they are helping others, the INFJ wants nothing less than t... JENNIFER SOLDNER But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work t... XENOPHANES JOYCE CAROL OATES CRAIG GROESCHEL ALAN BALL CHUCK PALAHNIUK The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing. CHRIS MATAKAS Ladies were ladies in those days; they did not do things themselves. GWEN RAVERAT Last year, kids were willing to negotiate with their parents, agreeing to less clothing and outright... MARSHAL COHEN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT JOHN LOCKE Parents themselves are eating badly. Their own behaviors translate into bad outcomes for their child... DR. JONATHAN SHENKIN Payday lending does not fit with their business plans and the way they present themselves to the pub... HARRY DAVIS
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conspicuous in the act of laughter. ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because... ALICE LOWE ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition. ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al... ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask. ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo... ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ... ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t... ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ... ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace. ALICE MOORE Flocks of the memories of the day draw near / The dovecot doors of sleep. ALICE MEYNELL I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / ... ALICE MEYNELL Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind ALICE MEYNELL Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it w... ALICE MEYNELL Holy Saturday All night had shouts of men and cry Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon ... ALICE MEYNELL Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of vers... ALICE MEYNELL Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the lit... ALICE MEYNELL Some parents, even really good parents, don't think to start that soon. During the Week of the Young... ALICE MCGREW One of the messages we want to get across ... is when children do not get what they need it is a ref... ALICE MCGREW It is a community issue, not just parents. ALICE MCGREW All parents want their children to succeed in school. They just don't know how to help them. When yo... ALICE MCGREW I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY When we bring something in, we usually only bring three or four pieces in. ALICE MARQUARDT A lot of these customers are our friends. ALICE MARQUARDT She wants personal service -- somebody who knows her name and somebody who knows her size. ALICE MARQUARDT She's a woman who probably can afford a little bit better clothes that fit her well and make her fee... ALICE MARQUARDT If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone come and sit by me. ALICE LONGWORTH The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ALICE LONGWORTH If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me ALICE LONGWORTH He [Calvin Coolidge] looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. ALICE LONGWORTH He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle ALICE LONGWORTH My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby ... ALICE LONGWORTH Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. ALICE LONGWORTH I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. ALICE LONGWORTH I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development ALICE LONGWORTH If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ALICE LONGWORTH I think it's an interesting study. It's certainly very well done, but it raises a lot of questions. ALICE LICHTENSTEIN That's always the benefit of labeling -- it's not just that people read the label but that it really... ALICE LICHTENSTEIN What that means is either there's no trans fat or there's up to .49 grams, or a little under half a ... ALICE LICHTENSTEIN As of Jan. 1, any packaged food that does not have trans fatty acid labeling should not be sold. ALICE LICHTENSTEIN Increasing omega-3 fatty acid intake through foods is preferable. ALICE LICHTENSTEIN What's really important is that we carefully look at what our lifestyle patterns are, our eating pat... ALICE LICHTENSTEIN People need to make fundamental changes - they don't have to be drastic. ALICE LICHTENSTEIN It sounded great! People could eat all the forbidden foods and lose weight, ALICE LICHTENSTEIN That is serious calories. We can only hope that the consumer is smart enough to realize that you can... ALICE LICHTENSTEIN That is serious calories, ALICE LICHTENSTEIN We understand that self-defense is an important right and that deadly force is sometimes the result.... ALICE JOHNSON The whole back porch is gone. And the shelter over there, it just picked the posts and all up out of... ALICE JOHNSON My legs and feet got so cold, I thought I'd never get to sleep last night. ALICE JOHNSON We're trying to prevent injuries and deaths from gun violence, and we're very concerned with both of... ALICE JOHNSON ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES ALICE JAMES It puts additional pressure on institutions. For us, it's $34,000. It is less revenue that we have t... ALICE JACOBS We need to make sure physicians are aware that women may need special tests and different diagnostic... ALICE JACOBS Wear Red Day is an opportunity for everyone to remember their female friends and family members who ... ALICE JACOBS This year's state of heart for women brings good news and bad news: Death rates are... ALICE JACOBS We must reverse this trend. Medical research plays a vital role in the discovery of treatments and c... ALICE JACOBS What people need to realize is they have a first person view of history and as many of the personal ... ALICE JACKSON I plan to share my knowledge in reporting to help people cope with the storm. I will show them how t... ALICE JACKSON It's a large chunk of time out of the instructional day and it's large chunk of time out of the inst... ALICE JACKSON We don't make a big deal about it. We don't want to create test anxiety. ALICE JACKSON If we can start to say that's not acceptable in town, we can change that culture. ALICE JACKSON If they know there are consequences, they don't do things. If they know at the dance they will be ch... ALICE JACKSON I like the books because the heroines don't do what others want them to, they do what they want. ALICE HYDE We were both happy ... we celebrated by having pizza with our family. ALICE HYDE Cement sales resumed to customers on Sunday, February 26 after the problem was identified and resolv... ALICE HYDE I began studying geography because I wanted to learn more about the world I live in. ALICE HYDE It is a lot of work trying to put this concert together. I have a lot of responsibilities. But I hav... ALICE HOWES We haven't worked together yet. We each have been doing our own section of the concert and will put ... ALICE HOWES It was a very long process. For instance, we have to take text or poetry, translate it into sign lan... ALICE HOWES We are both trying to find our own inspiration and movement. My inspiration is sign language. ALICE HOWES Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place. ALICE HOGAN While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin... ALICE HOGAN While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin... ALICE HOGAN While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin... ALICE HOGAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN ALICE HOFFMAN The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det... ALICE HAMILTON Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t... ALICE HAMILTON No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding. ALICE HAMILTON It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P... ALICE HAMILTON It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und... ALICE HAMILTON Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation... ALICE HAMILTON From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w... ALICE HAMILTON Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. ALICE HAMILTON Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of... ALICE HAMILTON Before moving to Utah, she raised dachshunds and Shetland ponies at the family home on Jackson Stree... ALICE GILBORN Before moving to Utah, she raised dachshunds and Shetland ponies at the family home on Jackson Stree... ALICE GILBORN She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail. ALICE GILBORN I learned that one has to be really focused and devote oneself if you're going to get into the anima... ALICE GILBORN She returned to Colorado with three children and an even larger assortment of animals, including a g... ALICE GILBORN Our job is to make sure the money is not diverted to fraudsters. ALICE FISHER We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are... ALICE FISHER This is not something the department should be getting involved with, ALICE FISHER We're going to act quickly and aggressively to detect any kind of fraud and vigorously pursue it if ... ALICE FISHER If it doesn't look right, chances are it's not, ALICE FISHER When individuals meet here in the shadow of our nation's capital to go prepare for violent action, w... ALICE FISHER [The standoff stems from an FBI e-mail revealed during recent litigation over detainee-abuse allegat... ALICE FISHER Philip Bloom admits offering millions in bribes so that he and his companies could receive contracts... ALICE FISHER
And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blo... 
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. 
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? 
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. 
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want the... 
My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our rela... 
Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mi... 
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our f... 
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. 
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them 
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. 
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves 
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon thems... 
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon thems... 
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents ... 
Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou... 
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight ... 
The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well. 
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no... 
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondne... 
One main reason why most dreamers cannot take their dreams off the ground is that they keep their id... 
It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were n... 
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge... 
In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted a... 
People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. The... 
Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... 
The reason why human beings fail to create real connections with others, is due to the fact that the... 
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until th... 
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by ... 
Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exac... 
In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alon... 
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative pare... 
While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were ad... 
Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n... 
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not ... 
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
[The dreamscape conversations on] Six Feet Under, ... with their own ideas about themselves and what... 
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust t... 
Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, r... 
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to... 
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu... 
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. 
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. 
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... 
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... 
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... 
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i... 
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ... 
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. 
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... 
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... 
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am... 
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. 
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be... 
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe... 
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ... 
When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ... 
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. 
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am 
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think... 
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappea... 
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.