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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood secret fatherhood
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller
childhood facts matter
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. Michael Gruber
childhood dream life lived taking
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. Bernard Berenson
childhood growing nasty
I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood. Jennifer Anderson
childhood current foresight funding growing imagine issue legend obesity seems sought
She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. Carl Sandburg
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature dresses solicitude
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen
literature incapability university
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature chance viewers
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them. Brit Hume