Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "

Related Quotes:

" To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. "

" In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. "

" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "

" Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories. "

" My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. "

" As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. "

" I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "

" I have a good life. "

" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "

" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "

" What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. "

" 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. "

" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "

" Kids lead a very private life. "

" The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. "

" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "

" I became a set designer for opera. "

" I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels. "

" I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. "

" I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. "

" I'm not afraid of death. "

" We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. "

" I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. "

" I'm a lucky buck. "

" There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. "

" The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. "

" I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. "

" I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. "

" 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. "

" I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. "