"No one ever grows up. They may look……" — Robert R. McCammon
"No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's a disguise. It's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and play, but that heavy clay won't let them..."
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Robert R. McCammon
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14 Quotes by Robert R. McCammon
Robert R. McCammon has 14 quotes on this site.
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born…
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After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks.…
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Maybe crazy is what they call anybody who's got magic in them after they're no longer a child.
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They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their…
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Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.
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Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you…
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Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch
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I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.
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Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and…
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Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until…
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We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in…
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There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're…
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More Children Quotes
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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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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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