#turning

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#bound #children #fact #forgiven #grow

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#find #like #nothing #place #remains

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. ↗

— John Mayer

#charity #charity work #done #music #other

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #autonomy #away #connections #notion

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good. ↗

— Denene Millner

#being #break #cry #crying #does

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. ↗

— Paul Morand

#full #gray #kills #shows #speed

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#because #being #drive #go #kid

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#did #driven #everything #excess #extreme

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. ↗

— Paul Muni

#actor #attic #bus #camera #cement