"To have a child is to be impaled……" — Steve Toltz
"To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility."
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43 Quotes by Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz has 43 quotes on this site.
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There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t…
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Amen' is like the Send button on an email.
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Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
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I haven't been part of the criminal world,
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After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't…
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Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
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The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough…
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I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless…
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What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it?…
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Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling,…
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That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white…
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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.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— HonorÈ 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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