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Children Quotes by John Irving
- There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
- She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at…
- It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that…
- The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed…
- Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their…
- Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish…
- Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon