Quote by Russell Baker
Dont try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do i

Dont try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. – Russell Baker

Other quotes by Russell Baker

Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

Category:
Politics
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalisms problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. – Russell Baker

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Business
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

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History
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Other Quotes from
parenting
category

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. Theres nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional. – George Herbert Walker Bush

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parenting

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. – Francis Bacon

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parenting

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. – Nancy Chodorow

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parenting

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then hell escape. – W. H. Auden

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parenting

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams

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In Jewish history there are no coincidences. – Elie Wiesel

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History

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. Youve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe Ive got my Freud mixed up. Its just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. – Vera Farmiga

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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

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alone