Children Quote by Stephen Dunn Download Open image ““May you turn stone, my daughter, into silk. May you make men better than they are.”” — Stephen Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Where I used to image you as a girl with a bag full of stones, ready to throw them at any foe who crossed… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and you couldn't… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Whatever men make," she says, "what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“He’s taught me everything. He taught me how to look at things. He shows me everything there is in flowers. He shows me how… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“But do not misunderstand - I turned him to stone from compassion. Stone men have stone hearts, and stone hearts cannot be wounded or… — Miyuki Miyabe Copy Share Image
“Men are imperfect creatures, aren't they? But they are the only opposite sex we have, so we must make the best of them.” — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“The women will die just as much as the men will if we bomb ourselves back to the Stone Age. And then we'll be… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to… — Stephen Dunn 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
