Top 61 Glass Child Quotes
#2. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.
Mother Teresa
#3. With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.
Lesley Manville
#4. The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
Jonathan Carroll
#5. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?
Charlotte Eriksson
#7. This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#8. But I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.
Charlotte Eriksson
#9. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.
Charlotte Eriksson
#10. And why does man weep when he is sad? I asked at last - Because the glass in the eyes must be washed now and then, so that we can see clearly, said the child.
August Strindberg
#11. Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back!
Charles Dickens
#12. It's called "being an artist" for a reason; it's something YOU ARE. It's how you live. It's WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.
Charlotte Eriksson
#13. The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
Demetri Martin
#14. The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
Timothy Keller
#15. I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as a child. Even then, I marveled at the strangeness of the women in the magazines, their hair feathered in a style I struggled to believe was ever in fashion.
Valentine Glass
#16. What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.
Bob Weir
#17. Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press her nose on the glass, peering at things she could never have.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#19. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.
Nancy Pearl
#20. There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Mignon McLaughlin
#21. I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
Charlotte Eriksson
#22. It's just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.
Charlotte Eriksson
#25. I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
Charlotte Eriksson
#26. What is time
a November leaf
a child's vacillating mouth
a rose
a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.
Ilhan Berk
#27. Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.
Fanny Fern
#28. I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote
first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.
Julia Glass
#29. I think I'm learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#30. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#31. When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,
I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.
Charlotte Eriksson
#32. Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#35. My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Charlotte Eriksson
#36. It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you've started to leave, you will run your whole life.
Charlotte Eriksson
#38. No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
H. Bentley Glass
#39. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
Charlotte Eriksson
#40. Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. You always were a strange child, Alexander," he said, "but vampires? I can't believe it."
I shrugged.
"Well, now you know where I get my biting sense of humor," I said weakly.
Isabelle Glass
#43. But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.
Mary Kubica
#44. I am not a broken heart.
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn't know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.
Charlotte Eriksson
#45. Below the glass would be the weak spot. Plywood, probably, maybe three-eighths thick, painted, retained in the frame by quarter-round moldings. Reacher was wearing shoes he had bought in the London airport two deployments ago, stout British things with welts and toecaps as hard as steel.
Lee Child
#46. I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.
Charlotte Eriksson
#47. What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.
Charlotte Eriksson
#48. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#49. Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.
Charlotte Eriksson
#50. I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.
Charlotte Eriksson
#51. I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
Charlotte Eriksson
#52. Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.
Alice Glass
#54. I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out.
Charlotte Eriksson
#55. You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.
Jeaniene Frost
#56. My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.
Julia Glass
#59. Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she's a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn't been a child since the day she was whipped into muteness. Anxiety might strangle her sometimes, but she's not some baby needing to be coddled.
Laura Kreitzer
#61. Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.
Charlotte Eriksson
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