"One of the most obvious facts about grownups……" — Randall Jarrell
"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
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28 Quotes by Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell has 28 quotes on this site.
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
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The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world…
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I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is…
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your…
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning…
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Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less,…
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all,…
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
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The ways we miss our lives are life.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
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