190 quotes found
“Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.”
“I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment wh...”
“Love is a relation that starts before you are born and survives even after you die...”
“I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God...”
“A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a di...”
“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You”
“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.”
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grow...”
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sid...”
“I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a bet...”
“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”
“If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.”
“The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to d...”
“The fantasy of life;When I was a child, I said I cant wait to grow up.When I was adult, I said I miss childhood adventures.”
“Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!”
“Netiquette is overdelicate because kids use the internet. Adult content forms are triplicate, ASL. NetworkEtiquette.net”
“adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.”
“Simon Stiegler, Literatur, Belletristik, Crime, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, children, Adult, books, author,Autor”
“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment Shed been bored and annoyed, and at one point ...”
“I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why cant I received the same feeling in return?-Ariel”
