{"quotes":[{"text":"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["parenting","role-models"],"id":4647,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.","author":"Onyi Anyado","tags":["distinction","inspirational","inspire","leadership","leadership-development","leadership","of-the-day","to-live-by","role-model","role-model-for-kids","role-model-for-teenagers","role-models"],"id":10103,"author_id":"Onyi+Anyado"},{"text":"I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.","author":"Amy Chua","tags":["america","challenge","children","expectations","model","role-models","thrive"],"id":15681,"author_id":"Amy+Chua"},{"text":"Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","confuse","confusion","enemies","enemy","funny","hate","hatred","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","qualities","quality","role-model","role-models","satire"],"id":22656,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["greed","role-models"],"id":24678,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it.","author":"Alexandre Dumas","tags":["goals","life","role-models","wisdom"],"id":41512,"author_id":"Alexandre+Dumas"},{"text":"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","aspiration","aspire","axiom","axioms","boy","boys","capitalism","capitalistic","carbon-emissions","carbon-footprint","civilization","countries","country","deep","develop","developed","developed-countries","developed-country","dictum","dictums","economic-growth","economics","economies","economy","emission","environment","epigram","epigrams","first-world","funny","gdp","global-warming","gnome","gnomes","gnp","gross-domestic-product","gross-national-product","growth","humor","humorous","humour","industrialization","industrialized","industry","insightful","look-up-to","made-me-think","make-you-think","man","maxim","maxims","men","ozone-layer","philosopher","pollution","poor","poverty","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rich","riches","role-model","role-models","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","second-world","south-africa","south-african","third-world","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underdeveloped","underdeveloped-countries","underdeveloped-country","wealth","wealthy"],"id":45750,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-influence","bad-teaching","bad-upbringing","bitter","broken-individuals","careless","close-minded","cruelty","equality","evil-acts","eye-for-an-eye","false-justice","game-players","games","hateful","heartless","immaturity","insecure","jealous","lack-of-empathy","lack-of-standards","lost-people","manipulative","not-caring","old-testament","role-models","ruthless","teachers","vengeful","well-intended"],"id":47426,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.","author":"Jennifer Frick-Ruppert","tags":["actions","cause-and-effect","chief","effort","important","middle-grade","midlle-grade-fantasy","native-american","native-american-wisdom","represent","role-models","worthiness"],"id":57680,"author_id":"Jennifer+Frick-Ruppert"},{"text":"We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["engineering","exploration","role-models","science","scientists","space"],"id":59935,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}