"Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Todd G. Buchholz

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Kids Quotes

“If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.”
“Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.”
“The Situation's style is like super obnoxiously aggressive.”
“ï¿¼ï¿¼Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.”
“The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.”

Source : "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.
“Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics.”
“I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.”
“I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.”

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