Indoctrinating Children Quotes

#1. Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

#2. But he remembered that even if she did box his ears, he musn't box hers again, for she was a girl, and all that boys must do, if girls are rude, is to go away and leave them.

George MacDonald

#3. In a world of a billion Christians, there should never be a moment on the planet when hurting people feel orphaned by God.

Johnnie Moore

#4. I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of freeing children to learn and not letting parents be too doctrinaire in indoctrinating their children.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure.

Dan Ariely

#6. Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)

Max Allan Collins

#8. Start finding future clients before you have anything to sell them. Get to know these people as friends, not potential customers.

Keith Ferrazzi

#9. It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

Henry Rollins

#10. The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.

Virginia Clinton Kelley

#11. One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Rudyard Kipling

#12. Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

Liz Williams

#13. The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

Ken Ham

#14. A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

W.G. Sebald

#15. But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he'd become less of a rebel than he'd ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be a bad habit.

James S.A. Corey

#16. You wanted to wear the second amplifier. You have it. You want to go to Os Alta? Fine, we'll go. You say you need the firebird. I'll find a way to get it for you. But when all this is over, Alina, I wonder if you'll still want me.

Leigh Bardugo

#17. I wanted to know how ugly I could get, how ruined and ugly and spoiled, before they stopped trying to fuck me. I didn't think they'd ever notice. Nobody had so far. Because I was still in the shape of a beautiful girl. Although I behaved like an ugly one.

Emma Forrest