Scolded Quotes

• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

  Roald Dahl

  Hours, Desks, Force

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

  Charley Pride

  Advice, Fans, Helpful

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

  Margaret Atwood

  Talking, Simply You, People

  "Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Cake, Being A Mother

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• Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hippie

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• People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

  Scott Thompson

  People, Want, Lectures

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• Gabbe jumped up and seized the cocanut first, giving its contents a sniff. "Arriane, she has just been through a trama," she scolded. Arriane tossed her shoulders back. "Precisely why she needs something with a kick," she argued, holding the tray possessively while she and Gabbe engaged in a stare-down. "Fine," Arriane said, looking away from Gabbe.

  Lauren Kate

  Giving, Needs, Firsts

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• A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

  Robert Breault

  Dog, Cat, Self

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• Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.

  Martin Van Buren

  Men, Opinion

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• In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

  Betsy Lerner

  Lying, Book, People

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Teacher, Poetry, Way

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• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mistake, Commitment, Heaven

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• Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Girl, Doe, Barefoot

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• I think Twitter is becoming remarkably intolerant and heavily liberal. As in, anything that is perceived as being "pro Trump" is scolded and mocked.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Becoming, Trump

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Ankles, Break

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• His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Heart, Stupidity, Arrogance

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• Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Awkward, Only Child

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• No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

  William Cowper

  Sin

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• Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.

  Seungri

  Japan, Tables, Chopsticks

  Source: fyeahseungri.com

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• Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Hands, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Doors, Perfect

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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