Adults Quote by Margaret Halsey

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?

— Anonymous

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

— Murray Banks

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

— St. Jerome

“Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

— Caroline Norton

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts…

— Bayard Taylor

When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity,…

— Theodor Herzl

For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the…

— Erma Bombeck

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's…

— Nathaniel Branden

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has…

— John Muir

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays…

— Sigmund Freud