Aging Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar Download Open image “Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.” — Marguerite Yourcenar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Beautiful Beautiful Far Behinds Book Books Books Beautiful Children Far Children Leaving Leaving Books Writer
“Leaving behind books is more beautiful. There are already enough children” — Margurete Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
