Childhood Quote by Peter Handke Download Open image “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.” — Peter Handke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Storyteller Writing
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations. — Mark Richard Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years,… — Am Homes Copy Share Image
A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets. — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
“Stories are bulls. Writers come of age full of vigor, and they feel the need to drive the old stories from the herd. One bull rules the herd awhile but then he loses his vigor and the young bulls take over. Stories are nations, empires. They can last as long as ancient Rome or as short as the Third Reich.… — Jess Walter Copy Share
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I can't define myself. And I'm really happy about this, that I'm not able to make a definition of, even of my work. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
