“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“People who are detained (held in prison) are locked up by their past, and because you are locked up by your past… — Rev. Earl Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish Marta were more loyal to me. Like the other day. The car parked next to ours had a real… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when… — Karleen Koen Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“A memory rose, unbidden, unwanted. Trite in its way, yet the truth of the statement hit her to the core. “When I… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put… — Benjamin Brindise Copy Share Image
“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Its a time when you gotta push the childish things aside & realize it happened but its over now & keep right on living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.” — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Copy Share Image
The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life where you will become and adult so that means it'll be a time to push away… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
