Overgrown Child Quotes

#1. I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

H.L. Mencken

#2. A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

H.L. Mencken

#3. If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

Emily Yoffe

#5. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

Deborah Kara Unger

#6. The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

Lauren Oliver

#7. The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

#8. Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

Robert Jeffress

#9. I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

Nelson Mandela

#10. Don't ever let yourself surrender to writer's block.

Julie Wenzel

#11. I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.

Ann Aguirre

#12. When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Jordin Sparks

#13. There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

Laurent Fabius

#14. Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who can not be handled by his parents any more.

Thabang Gideon Magaola

#15. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Abraham Cowley