Belief Quote by Sylvia Pankhurst

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

— Jacques Barzun

“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty…

— Richard Hughes

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other…

— Terry McMillan

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

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

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify…

— Thomas Jefferson

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and…

— John Irving

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

— Theophilus London

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything…

— Richard Bausch

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,

— Maurice Sendak