Quotes About Manipulating Parents

#1. However, unschooling doesn't imply that a child doesn't take classes or participate in structured learning activities. It means that we, the parents, don't attempt to make our children learn by giving assignments or otherwise manipulating or threatening them into learning and doing things.

Sara McGrath

#2. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Oscar Wilde

#3. They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

Christopher Titus

#4. We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

#5. Pinterest board for Library Journal called "Cheap and Cheerful Librarian Tips," which links her interest in DIY arts-and-crafts projects with her library work.

John Palfrey

#6. Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue.

Deborah Davis

#7. The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a lot more people knowing my jokes than I thought.

Mike Birbiglia

#8. It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

Richard Donner

#9. A woman's death, through much of the same history, was thought to be a simpler thing, preferably quiet and uncomplaining, or tragically in childbirth. Just as women were denied the right and the capacity to a full life, they were denied the right and the capacity to a full death as well.

Robert C. Solomon

#10. Parents always thought if they could get on your level then that allowed them secret passage into your world when in reality, they were just manipulating you the whole time.

Peter Monn

#11. The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.

Alan Keyes

#12. Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

James Gibbons