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Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: December 17, 1908 - April 28, 1984

Topics

I Am Child Night Yesterday Blackness

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.

Yourself People Control Free Rich

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.

Children Small Reading Library Floor

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.'

Life Work Children Day Child Eye

I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.

Mind Me Door Employee Open Anything

We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.

Remember Georgia Own Population Must

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Beauty Because Sensual Chosen Been

The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

Balance People Green Think Back Way

It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

Christie Hefner

Brand Doing You Go Sometimes Let Go

Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.

Dreams Singing Benefits Documentary

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip - because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

Happy Choices Pride Picture Hands

Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.

Work Choose Done Important More

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

Renato Dulbecco

Father Mother Born I Was Born Italy

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