"If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it. I've never spanked my kid - I think because in my household you were afraid. If you did something wrong and got caught, you were getting spanked."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Kwame Alexander

#Father Quotes #Book Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.”
“I like things in their proper places.”
“The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.”
“I think that even in a drama, we all want to smile, and laugh because what a horrible life if we're just like "I'm in a drama." And so I think in everything you're trying to look for the humor, even if it's a dark scene, because most people want to have fun in life, as opposed to have a boring time, a terrible time.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign that Kyoto Protocol.”
“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”
“The more you play it the less you know about it.”
“I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.”

Source : Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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