You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children. —Ray Romano More about this quote Tags: children parenthood sex parenting sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What did we care . . . where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life? —Arthur Conan Doyle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage. —Tom Arnold More about this quote Tags: perspective childhood divorce excitement separation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: justice wisdom learning intelligence safety gods childhood growth lying parental infallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: now generations experience world youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. —Walt Disney More about this quote Tags: children childhood age forgetting growing up Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: maturity youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. A man who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He has only garnered weariness. —Paul Eldridge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In this day and age, some turn eighteen and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions. —Orlando McGuire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does. —Marcelene Cox More about this quote Tags: children control thriving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: change youth experimentation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Tags: fear angels devils flight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster. —Ryūnosuke Akutagawa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: fear kindness schizophrenia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email