Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that...

Sophie's World

Having seen one of William Steig's letters, I mentioned to Arthur how similar I thought William's handwriting seemed to the lines of his drawings. 'I never connected the handwriting and the drawing,' Arthur remarked. 'But they're not in two different...

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature

Your fear is, that if you marry Adèle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than anything else in the world, more than patriotism, more than democracy. If your children grow up, and prove traitors to the people, will you ...

A Place of Greater Safety

They always loved my sense of humor. There used to be a light switch inside one of the nurseries that was a cutout of Jesus putting his arm around two children on each side of him as he towered above them. The switch was ironically located in the spo...

Chase Brooks

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

The Children of Húrin

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

The Children of Herakles

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

The Children of Men

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

The Children of Men

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.

Cheryl Tiegs

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

I Learn from Children

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Maurice

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups