Knows Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray Download Open image “I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.” — Francine du Plessix Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knows Parent Parenting Seventies Thinking
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Now, a lot of people are challenged by the fact that a record number of people in their sixties have living parents, and a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew? — Boy George Copy Share Image
I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both parent and child; I am giving birth… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music and poetry,… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image