Children Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image “Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Nature Reserves
“Should I be concerned over the obvious delight our daughter takes in the ultraviolence?" "It's genetic.” — Young Justice Copy Share Image
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“If now the all-mother sends forth her children without protection to a thousand threatening dangers, this can only be because she knows that if… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It was not the time to recall all those really horrifying nursery stories she'd read, Bluebeard, Babes in the Wood, Little Red Riding Hood.… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Children are always a joy, but pain, too. And they all must lead their own lives. Even Mut will let Her children go their… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Few things feel as threatening to a mother as does something that jeopardizes others' love for and acceptance of her child.” — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder 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
