"If men do not keep on speaking terms……" — John Updike
"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money."
—
John Updike
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
-
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
-
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
-
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
-
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
-
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
-
Without rain, there would be no life.
-
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
-
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
-
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
-
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
-
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
See all 339 quotes by John Updike »
More Become Merely Quotes
This quote is filed under Become Merely Quotes,
one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to…
— Adolf Hitler
-
Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
-
Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and…
— Alberto Villoldo
-
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the…
— David Ben-Gurion
-
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
-
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have…
— Joe Mantello
-
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly…
— Nina Fedoroff
-
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away.…
— Bell Hooks
-
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season,…
— Tanith Lee
-
If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.
— Unknown Author
See all 12 Become Merely Quotes »