Feral Children Quotes

#1. Who realizes how contented feral children are? The grasp of the family fell away as soon as I was out the door.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. Eggs is a kind of a plucky, brave 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a boxtroll. And he's kind of one of these mythological feral children who are raised in isolation of humanity and, by virtue of that, have a deeper connection to humanity because they've been raised away from the poisons of society.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#3. Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman

#4. Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

Jerry Pournelle

#5. I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.

Mariella Frostrup

#6. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. The earth is a beautiful planet.

Scott Kelly

#8. A government is a band of hypnostists, they hate people who open their eyes during session

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#9. In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

#10. I thought that I was in heaven
But I was sure surprised
Heaven help me, I didn't see
The devil in your eyes
You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise
You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise

Elvis Presley

#11. Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas ... omnes artes perdocet.]

Plautus

#12. The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

Jonah Peretti

#13. I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Gillian Flynn

#14. I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

Olivia Colman

#15. There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Edward Gibbon

#16. How many dead bodies does it take for an assassin to grow a conscience?

J.A. Huss

#17. As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.

Cherie Blair

#18. Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

Raghad Hussein

#19. He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of " dog ." "It is you who are dogs," cried he, "when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.

Diogenes

#20. In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky