Children Quote by Melanie Benjamin Download Open image ““Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant? p 181”” — Melanie Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Love Old enough Son Love
“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I sit back on my heels watching him, falling in love with my son all over again. His mind is more curious than mine.… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“What if age didn’t determine whether or not a person could truly understand what love was and whether it was real?” — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“This boy loved me the way I’d always wanted to be loved, the way I needed to be loved, and he gave his life… — Apryl Baker Copy Share Image
“Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
“And, everyone knows, to tolerate a person telling you about his childhood it is necessary to be in love with him.” — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“We'd been twelve years old together. We'd shared the convictions that only twelve year olds can share, that love is simple and powerful and… — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved his niece.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth was the same as ever, and I was the same as ever around her; no longer a confident college senior, I was diminished… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Who was this woman before me, her face imprinted with the expectations of others? I was Mom. I was Wife. I was Tragedy. I… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason. — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“my breath sour against my fist, which I still held to my mouth as if this was a sorrow that could be stifled.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence, coupling, of… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“ashamed of it even as I craved it. “Oh, she does! There’s a party tomorrow,” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom... p 364” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home...for the rest of my life, watching all of you go off one… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“And this—instead of happiness—would be only what the two of us deserved, after all.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“...all his smiles were just a little sad around the edges, as if he knew happiness never could last very long” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“And I did not speak German well; I found the language harsh and guttural, my ear simply couldn’t find it pleasing, and so my… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
