top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon."
Standard
Customized
More
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To abandon the child 'within' means that the adult 'without' will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy."
Spiders
"Science grows like a weed every year."
Science
"My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas."
Mother
"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion."
Art
"In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse."
Feet
"People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does."
People
"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon."
Childhood
"It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all."
Work
"The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it."
Mystery
"Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there."
Work
bottom of page