Quotes of Alice Duer Miller - somelinesforyou

“ Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching, for his scholastic coaching, for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends — you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching, for his scholastic coaching, for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching, for his scholastic coaching, for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Democracy is this — to hold That all who wander down the pike In cart or car, on foot or bike, Or male or female, young or old, Are much alike — are much alike. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching, for his scholastic coaching, for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Democracy is this — to hold That all who wander down the pike In cart or car, on foot or bike, Or male or female, young or old, Are much alike — are much alike. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ”

- Alice Duer Miller

“ It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching, for his scholastic coaching, for his scholastic difficulties. ”

- Alice Duer Miller
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