Nina Bawden Quotes

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeChildrenTimeWritingThink

Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe.

Joel Madden

YourselfBelieveYouStay TrueTrue

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.

Robert Reich

MoneyPeopleAmericaBadTrouble

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

ArtArchitectureHabitPainting

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

Luke Bryan

RoadDirtHeadKeepJustQuite

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done.

Jared Kushner

FatherBusinessSonThoughtChoice

Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

Dick Van Patten

FamilyHomeManMeLongCareer

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

Dennis Quaid

YouAnimalsRaceTwoOutRanch

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

Dean Kamen

PeopleProblemsBetterDrivingGoing

When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

Chris Abani

WomenMenGrowing UpCountryYoung

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Anthony Hopkins

LoveHomeCarWifeSchoolChild

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

Scott Ritter

HistoryTremendousIraqAmount

The political world is defined by relationships rather than transactions, and by numerous actors at home and abroad with independent power. Navigating such a world is difficult and precarious.

Richard N. Haass

HomePowerWorldPoliticalDifficult

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Nina Bawden