Step Children Quotes

• It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

  Ray Johnson

  Strong, Children, Real Men

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• Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

  Anthony Powell

  Children, Disappointment, Years

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press

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• Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

  David Harsanyi

  Children, Math, Thinking

  "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.

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• My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Mother, Children, Divorce

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• When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!

  Jason Bennett

  Badass, Children, Heart

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• The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

  Georg Brandes

  Children, Men, Age

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Children, Ideas, Steps

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1948). “Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination”

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• Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.

  Eric Cantona

  Children, Teenage, Men

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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