Children Quote by Anna Akhmatova

“He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea, Or feminine…

— Anna Akhmatova

“he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising,”

— Jose Conrad

“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began…

— Osip Mandelstam

“He had fallen in love with this wild, beautiful country and everything it contained. It was the kind of love people dream of having…

— Michael Blake

“So after he married her, he set out not really to woo her, which he thought would be cheating when affairs of state had…

— Robin McKinley

“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs...”

— cassandra clare

“Instead he felt only love. And that was the miracle. The surge in hatred since the war began had created more love around it.…

— Kathy Hepinstall

“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they were happy…

— William Somerset Maugham

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops,…

— Thomas Hardy

“That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on the wrong…

— Jim Kelly

“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved his niece.…

— Julian Barnes

“He held up my most prized possession, a sweatshirt from spring break during my senior year of college. It was faded, tattered, and perfect…

— Tracy Brogan