Parenting Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Are anybody's parents typical?

— Madeleine L'Engle

“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Somehow or other, the loving parents had swallowed one of the Tempter's hooks, and the child was given total self-indulgence, which is…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We're not peculiar." "Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, “No, Meg. Don’t hope it was a…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live…

— Madeleine L'Engle

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg,” her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as…

— Madeleine L'Engle