Children Quote by Andrew Solomon Download Open image “Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.” — Andrew Solomon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Exercise Fitness Imagination Inspirational
That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities. — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them. — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children. — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and the reality of madness. I discovered two conflicting qualities of character. I am melodramatic by nature; on the other hand, I can go out and “seem normal” under the most abnormal of circumstances. Antonin Artaud wrote… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end by saying that I am on medication. “Still?” people ask. “But you seem fine!” To which I invariably reply that I seem fine because I am fine, and that I am fine in part because of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
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