"Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny."

-- Ben Stein

#Crush Quotes #Children Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
“We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.”
“They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.”
“Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carol Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.
“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”
“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
“I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different”

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