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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 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
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. Jesse Metcalfe
childhood lasts
Childhood lasts all through life. Gaston Bachelard
childhood phrases veils
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. Evelyn Waugh
childhood moments astonishing
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. Eugene Ionesco
disease emerge expect head infectious rear seen ugly virus
As an infectious disease expert, I've never seen a pathogen emerge and go away on its own, ... We have to expect that sometime, somewhere, this virus is going to rear its ugly head again. Julie Gerberding
disease dragging groups sexually vaccine
Dragging your 10-year-old to get a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease could have some groups pretty upset. Al Rauch
disease family fiction fit heroic novels politics romantic room teen tend war
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. John Green
disease fool modern-life
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them. Bruce Barton
disease natural thirst-for-power
... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy. Thomas Paine
disease sexuality register
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Susan Sontag
disease desperate hope-and-love
My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope. Tom O'Connor
disease desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures cures
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. Hippocrates
disease conditions
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions Florence Nightingale
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 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 life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly. Amy Lowell
literature fundamentals significant
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
literature process secretive
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on. Donald Miller
literature outsiders conflict
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept. Colin Wilson