Stunted Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
— Dirk Benedict
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives…
— Pope Francis
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I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell…
— James Blunt
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The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough…
— Edward Abbey
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A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
— Edward Abbey
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
— Abraham Maslow
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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not…
— James A. Baldwin
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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....
— Denise Levertov
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You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree…
— Valmiki
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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of…
— Robert Fortune
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It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return?…
— Ben Robertson
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that…
— Raj Patel
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Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child…
— Gore Vidal
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We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced…
— Ernest Gruening
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We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation…
— Spencer W. Kimball
Who Wrote These Stunted Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 48 Stunted Quotes, led by these top contributors: