Adult life Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is…

— David O. McKay

“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible…

— Thomas Paine

“The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that those bad…

— Simone de Beauvoir

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have…

— Jane Yolen

“The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right way by…

— Lyman Beecher

“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk,…

— Gunter Grass

“There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.”

— Alice Walker

“The Sacred Word of God shall sanctifies us of any wretchedness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

— William Shakespeare

“You will say things with a merry tongue; you are not one for graceless words and no one will take offence. I will cause…

— Noella Menon

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets…

— Daphne du Maurier

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking…

— Meister Eckhart