"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."

Family, Work, Forget, Literature

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter."

John Green, American Author

Family, Humor, Parenting, Night, Frustration

"They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Family, Blood, Strength, Cold

"Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Dreams, Strength

"It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Unity, Together, Love

"Children observe everything with caution."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Observe, Caution, World

"Children are holy angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Holy, Angels, Blessings

"Children are sacred beings."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Sacred, Beings, Life

"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Family, Fatherhood, Truth, Power, Love

"A new baby is the beginning of a new universe-his own unique universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Baby, Universe, New Beginnings

"Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Learners, Words, Life

Explore more quotes by Lloyd Alexander

"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."

Concern

"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."

Parenting

"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."

Love

"It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army."

War

"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."

War

"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."

Expression

"There's this huge number of desperate people."

People

"I loved all the world's mythologies."

World

"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."

Relationship

"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."

Work