Children Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen Download Open image ““She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.”” — Viet Thanh Nguyen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Poor people Poor Person War
“Women and children make you weak; get rid of them when you are in war.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.” — Da Chen Copy Share Image
“I never turned children to war," Tool said. "Only because you fought on the side of wealth,” — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to talk about my parents. I had no real answers to tell Sarah if she asked about them. Talking about them… — Johan Twiss Copy Share Image
“The Little War? How can there be a little war? Are some deaths smaller than others, leaving mothers who weep a little less?” — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“Maybe war makes you value things and people more than you did when there was Peace and you knew there would never be a… — Barbara Mutch Copy Share Image
“There was nobody who could help her. Nobody in the world. They were all on something, mad, possible enemies, dead.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“His despair was delicious when I told him what I'd done to her. What I would make you into. Not a child of peace-but… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.” — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art and literature?… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Innocence and guilt. These are cosmic issues. We’re all innocent on one level and guilty on another. Isn’t that what Original Sin is all… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“then, to present myself as just another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which,… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen 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