Nadia Boulanger Quotes

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 16, 1887 - October 22, 1979

Topics

LoveBestParentingChildGiving

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

John Grogan

EnvironmentTryingPossibleLandOwn

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

John Hurt

GoodFatherParentsThoughtYouHe

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

John Prescott

FindDownToo MuchDoneMeetLand

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

Shiv Nadar

BusinessDaughterMeSheGoing

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Catherine Bateson

LifeGoodPlaceGoWillAsk

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.

Monica Crowley

WorldWallStreetBarack ObamaHe

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

Dev Anand

DayPeopleMeDrawingDreamDown

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

LifeWomenDailyDayMenSimplicity

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

Alice Eve

LoveRomanticWishHigh HeelsHigh

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

Alison Gopnik

NatureChildrenMeWorldLooking

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Tim O'Brien

MeWorldRestYouForgetSometimes

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

Norm MacDonald

BrotherMeWindPoliticalBadSee

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