Children Quote by Nick Hornby Download Open image “It takes a child to say the unsayable.” — Nick Hornby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of speaking of… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Children can’t respond properly to warnings if they don’t hear them clearly in the first place. Finally,” — Thomas W. Phelan Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby 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
