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Children Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
- He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the…
- Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the…
- If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an…
- The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
- I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter…
- Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
- As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as…
- I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
- I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines…
- It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,…
- A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing…
- There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and…
- If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went…
- What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children,…
- What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
- When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily,…
- The children of the revolutionare always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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