Baby Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baby Boys Children Love Realistic Storytelling Tales
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl?… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
Romance is not just for a boy and a girl, the romance which takes place around the trees and flowers... Some people have a… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Boys have said in the past that I live my life like a movie. I love all things romantic, like kissing in the rain. — Mollie King Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“I looked down into my baby’s beautiful green eyes and ached inside. She looked up at me with wide-eyed innocence. I kissed her warm… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to be so comfortable handing my child off to a nanny without getting any of her information. As soon as she… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Baby, I love you. We argue about the stupidest shit then we turn around and laugh about it. I'm obsessed with you and you're… — Lindsay Copy Share Image
My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and… — Elliott Yamin Copy Share Image