Nina Bawden Quotes

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 19, 1925 - August 22, 2012

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I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

Jessica Simpson

TryReadCommentsHarshBlogs

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.

Jerry Harrison

YouYoungBandRightGetSure

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Alvaro Morata

NeverLeftItalyShould

I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That's all I'm interested in.

Stef Wertheimer

MoneyBuildWillMoreNeedParks

Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than in any other wealthy country.

Stephanie Coontz

WomenLiveSafetyAmericaPoverty

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

Tom Robbins

ChildMindRestLivingExistence

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Matisyahu

HabitPeopleEasyHardAnything

Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.

Arancha Gonzalez

HomeSocietyKeyGenerationSkills

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

Annie Leibovitz

StepOpinionViewPointSideTake

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Anne Hathaway

TimeAcceptanceYouFindOutGet

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

William Jay

LifeNatureDeathReligionChristian

When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and gloss to American middle-class life.

Todd Haynes

LifeThinkAmericanYouHeavenFar

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