Stunted Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth. — Dirk Benedict
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
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
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
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
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
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
A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked. — Edward Abbey
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy — Abraham Maslow
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
Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.... — Denise Levertov
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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