“You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.”

—  Zadie Smith , On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 167.
On Beauty (2005)
Variant: You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies." by Zadie Smith?
Zadie Smith photo
Zadie Smith 81
British writer 1975

Related quotes

Khaled Hosseini photo

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Rahim Khan, Ch. 3
Variant: Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)

Michael Madsen photo

“Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.”

Michael Madsen (1957) American actor

Attributed

Junot Díaz photo

“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

David Allen photo

“You don't have to like your life to get it off your mind. You DO have to renegotiate your agreements w/yourself about it.”

David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author

15 August 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/21206170236
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

Simone de Beauvoir photo

“It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do — or don't do.”

Simone de Beauvoir book Les Belles Images

Les Belles Images (1966), Ch. 3
General sources

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Bill Hybels photo

“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.”

Bill Hybels (1951) American writer

Source: Courageous Leadership

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis photo

“If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur (1 October 1960) https://web.archive.org/web/20140127091759/http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/joint/joint011060_nbctv03.html

Heidi Klum photo

“You have to just do your thing. As long as you don't hurt anybody along the way.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

Discussing dealing with criticism. Quoted in Page Six Magazine, 10 September 2009 https://archive.is/20130630011543/www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090910/Heidi+Klum+Talks+Seal+Karl+Lagerfeld+and+Project+Runway.

Jozef Israëls photo

“As I hear, you are the possessors of one of my favorite paintings 'The children on the beach' and I can tell you that few pictures by me, have so much figures, busy in the subject. Therefore I mean that this picture is an unicum and I hope you will give it a good light and place in your gallery.”

Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) Dutch painter

Israels in his letter to Amercian art-sellers Moulton & Ricketts, 27 June 1910; as cited in Jozef Israëls, 1824 – 1911, ed. Dieuwertje Dekkers; Waanders, Zwolle 1999, p. 188
Quotes of Jozef Israels, after 1900

Related topics