Caroline Pratt Quotes

#1. When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

Reggie Yates

#2. An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

#3. I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

Dita Von Teese

#4. Childhood's work is learning, and it is in his play ... that the child works at his job.

Caroline Pratt

#5. The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

Caroline Pratt

#6. From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.

Caroline Pratt

#7. Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Caroline Pratt

#8. Caroline also marveled at the resilience of

Scott Pratt

#9. I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

Dennis Rodman

#10. Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

Caroline Pratt

#11. The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Caroline Pratt

#12. I have wished you something
None of the others would ...

Philip Larkin

#13. A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

Caroline Pratt

#14. This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.

Caroline Pratt

#15. Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

Harold Innis

#16. When the officer approached the window, he said 'Papers' and before he could finish, I shouted, 'Scissors! I win,' and drove off.

Kyle Adams

#17. I have trouble understanding why taking a few grand a year in food stamps is somehow magically different than taking trillions as a bailout. Food stamps cost $76.4 billion for 2013, compared with trillions, possibly hundreds of those, for the banks.

Linda Tirado

#18. A school's job [is] to begin education.

Caroline Pratt

#19. Every woman with her own makeup!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#20. It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

Caroline Pratt

#21. In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

Caroline Pratt

#22. Children ... need most of the same things adults need
consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

Caroline Pratt

#23. The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.

Caroline Pratt

#24. Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

Caroline Pratt

#25. I am just discovering my fashion side. I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion.

Tasha Smith

#26. Arm chair warriors often fail.

Don Henley

#27. The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Caroline Pratt