Stunted Quotes

48 Stunted quotes by 46 unique authors

What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know… — Colson Whitehead
When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted,… — Jonah Goldberg
Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths. — Margaret Sanger
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight. — Tom Lantos
The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without… — Marianne Williamson
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured… — Arthur Eddington
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers. — Willie Stargell
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if… — Theodore Roosevelt
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. — C.D. Payne
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight. — Jacqueline Carey
You bit me? (Stryker) We use what we have. (Zephyra) Thatâ€™s such a girl move. (Stryker) But it works. Maybe if you fought like a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go… — Sue Monk Kidd
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having… — Jhonen Vasquez
Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he… — Diana Wynne Jones
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly… — Michael Cunningham
His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see… — Julie Anne Peters

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