Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style...

Philip Pullman

Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with it. It arrives without references, without credentials we can trust. Givers of prizes (not to mention critics) do the best they can, b...

Michael Cunningham

He is my brother," I said. "I cannot desert him." "You can go to your own death," William said. "Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardized and motherless by the end of this week. ...

The Other Boleyn Girl

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Children of God

If they're not going to respect you, then they best damn well fear you.

Children of the Flower Power

The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist.

The Enchanted Canyon

Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

Eden Lake

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.

The Fault in Our Stars

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.

A Broken Kind of Beautiful

I will survive, jackoffs. Just watch me.

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.

Beautiful Quotes

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

Bound and Freed Boxed Set

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Anthony Hecht

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

Elizabeth Hurley

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.

Michael Owen

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

Paul Auster

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Sugata Mitra

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

Jakob Bohme

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Horns