Nancy Atherton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.
-- Nancy Atherton

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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...
The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Nancy Atherton famous quotes

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