You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Acorn Copy Share Image
“Children should be very understanding of grown-ups” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Child Copy Share Image
“whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Causes Copy Share Image
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Greet Copy Share Image
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Add Copy Share Image
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Airplane Copy Share Image
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself — Antoine De Saint-Exupery Gently Copy Share Image
Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Child Copy Share Image
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Generation Copy Share Image
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Death Copy Share Image
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Butterfly Copy Share Image
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Change Copy Share Image
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Being honest Copy Share Image
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery About friendship Copy Share Image
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Color Copy Share Image
“In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Astronomy Copy Share Image
“And he told me: ‘I got it all wrong! I should have judged her by her actions, not her words. She filled… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Life Copy Share Image
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Foxes Copy Share Image
“You have hair like the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Grain Copy Share Image
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Civilization Copy Share Image
“But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfill its function, which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Computers Copy Share Image
One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sunsets Copy Share Image
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Blind Copy Share Image
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Child Copy Share Image
“Please-tame me!' he said. 'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Every day Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Aviation Copy Share Image
“Who are you?” asked the little prince, and added, “You are very pretty to look at.” “I am a fox,” said the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Little boys Copy Share Image
“I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Ask yourself Copy Share Image
“I know that mood. Three years of the desert taught it to me. Something in one’s heart takes fright, not at the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Growing old Copy Share Image
“Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Days Copy Share Image
“And the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.' And suddenly that tranquil world,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Eternity Copy Share Image
