Children Quotes by John Updike

“America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy.”

— John Updike

My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.

— John Updike

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at…

— John Updike

“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and…

— John Updike

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and…

— John Updike

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something…

— John Updike

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is…

— John Updike

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments…

— John Updike

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children…

— John Updike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability…

— John Updike

“My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he…

— John Updike

“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with…

— John Updike

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in…

— John Updike

“All this saving a child does! At one point I even saved the box scores of an entire baseball season, both leagues,…

— John Updike

“Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children" They will not be the same next time. The sayings so cute, just slightly off, will…

— John Updike

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and…

— John Updike

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and…

— John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped…

— John Updike

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much…

— John Updike