Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. "
Maurice Sendak
Savior
Made
Brother
Related Quotes:
" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "
Maurice Sendak
Parents
Tests
Think
" I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. "
Maurice Sendak
Think
You
Better
" Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. "
Maurice Sendak
Mean
Without
You
" What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. "
Maurice Sendak
Deep
Respect
Children
" Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. "
Maurice Sendak
New
Painful
Anxiety
" I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. "
Maurice Sendak
Look
Intelligent
Fact
" I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. "
Maurice Sendak
Accept
Role
Illustrator
" I became a set designer for opera. "
Maurice Sendak
Opera
Designer
Set Designer
" Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. "
Maurice Sendak
Idiot
Take
Seriously
" I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. "
Maurice Sendak
Believe
Again
Brother
" I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. "
Maurice Sendak
Thank God
Did
Never
" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "
Maurice Sendak
Watching
Fall
Show
" I cry a lot because I miss people. "
Maurice Sendak
Lot
Miss
People
" People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. "
Maurice Sendak
Disappointment
New York
People
" Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. "
Maurice Sendak
You
Parents
Want
" My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. "
Maurice Sendak
Work
Great
False
" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "
Maurice Sendak
Reading
Than
Much
" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "
Maurice Sendak
Criminal
Animals
Violent
" Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "
Maurice Sendak
Parents
Myself
Children
" I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. "
Maurice Sendak
Better
Sexy
You
" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "
Maurice Sendak
Sometimes
Children
Wrong
" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "
Maurice Sendak
Confidence
Much
Myself
" We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. "
Maurice Sendak
Us
Things
Against
" I was miserable as a kid. "
Maurice Sendak
Miserable
Kid
" Kids are so shrewd. "
Maurice Sendak
Shrewd
Kids
" All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. "
Maurice Sendak
Happy
Parents
Knew
" Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. "
Maurice Sendak
Know
Best
Enjoy
" I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "
Maurice Sendak
Children
Tell
Truth
" Kids lead a very private life. "
Maurice Sendak
Private Life
Private
Life
" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
Maurice Sendak
Hate
Future
May