Childhood Quote by Brian Aldiss Download Open image “That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.” — Brian Aldiss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Children playing Corpses Decay Dread Ifs Inner child Shows States Unhappy childhood
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears. — John Webster 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
“Our children are not happy. I believe this is because over the last half century we have increasingly monitored, supervised and attended to them,… — Sara Maitland 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
“Don’t you just love children? If they’re not disappointing you, they’re dead.” — Shawn Wickersheim Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and… — June Jordan Copy Share
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image