Quotes by Authors - Page 236

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.
Katherine A. Briccetti
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.
Hermann Hesse
The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart.
Vera Nazarian
Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.
Magda M. Olchawska
It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong to the same species, and therefore understand each other. Small boys, on the other hand, do not understand girls, and therefore being looked after by one is a little like a hamster being looked after by a shark. If you are a small boy, it may be some consolation to you to know that even large boys do not understand girls, and girls, by and large, do not understand boys. This makes adult life very interesting.
John Connolly
Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.
Dan Pearce
Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.
Doug Dillon
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!
Maurice Sendak
Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.
Miriam Toews
For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.
John Fowles
On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.
Ana Monnar
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff
You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.
Maggie Stiefvater
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
Jodi Picoult
Woe to the man who offends a small child!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn’t even realize it.
Shannon L. Alder
The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.
Shannon L. Alder
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.
Orson Scott Card
I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
Gillian Flynn
Worship the work not the God, because work is God.
Amit Kalantri
Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.
Amit Kalantri
People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.
Amit Kalantri
Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.
Amit Kalantri
In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.
Amit Kalantri
Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.
Amit Kalantri
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
Amit Kalantri
At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.
Amit Kalantri
Two kinds of people have many friends, one with bank balance and other with boldness.
Amit Kalantri
Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.
Amit Kalantri
Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.
Amit Kalantri
A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar.
Amit Kalantri
I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.
Amit Kalantri
People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.
Amit Kalantri
I can lend you my money not my books.
Amit Kalantri
My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.
Amit Kalantri
People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.
Amit Kalantri
A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.
Amit Kalantri
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
Amit Kalantri
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.
Amit Kalantri
After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.
Amit Kalantri
When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.
Amit Kalantri
Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.
Amit Kalantri
God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.
Amit Kalantri
Your clothes should be as important as your skin.
Amit Kalantri
Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.
Amit Kalantri
God has created you, not your future.
Amit Kalantri
Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.
Amit Kalantri
Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.
Amit Kalantri
You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.
Amit Kalantri
As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.
Amit Kalantri
Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.
Amit Kalantri
Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.
Amit Kalantri
My men are my money.
Amit Kalantri
Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation.
Amit Kalantri
My heart is not available for hurt.
Amit Kalantri
Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.
Amit Kalantri
Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.
Amit Kalantri
Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.
Amit Kalantri
Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.
Amit Kalantri
I talked to my nephew today, he's afraid of the dark. Or was. I said, "Why are you afraid of the dark? In the darkness we find many beautiful things!" He said, "Like what?" And I said, "Like the Moon and the stars! We would never see them without the darkness! And have you ever been to a movie house before? Do you think it would be as fun if it wasn't dark inside? And all the creatures under the sea— they're always there, swimming beautifully in the darkness of the waters!" And he said, "Bad things like ghosts are just fairy tales, right?" Then I told him, "Even if there were ghosts all around, they would not change in the darkness; they would be just the same as they are in the light. Look, we live in a world where there are bad things but there's no difference between these things whether they are in the darkness or in the light! Everything good and bad is always there; what changes is what and when we can see them. And the darkness brings us many beautiful experiences that we wouldn't be able to see in the light." And then I gave him a piece of my son's meteorite stone, I told him that whenever he feels afraid in the dark, he can hold onto it and it should remind him that many beautiful things, like that meteorite, come from the darkness so there's really nothing to ever be afraid of.
C. JoyBell C.