Books Quote by Aldous Huxley

“Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make…

— Wilkie Collins

“The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.”

— D.A. Botta

“What could be more intimate, more placental? This steamy, candlelit cradle she'd made use, twins tied in the womb. Grooming each other, letting the…

— Nick Fowler

“It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of…

— Alain de Botton

“In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people…

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

“We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the…

— Diane Ackerman

“He recognized the same frenzy of wild abandon that each of those adults shared while beating their children, as if the important object lesson…

— Elizabeth Garden

“The remoteness of nature reveals the tragedy of man's isolation and his weakness in the face of vast, impersonal forces.”

— John F. Lynen

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“This couple, so involved with babies, had never reproduced themselves, though they could have. This was an interesting comment on the whole idea of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.”

— T.S. Eliot