Quotes About The Children's Crusade

#1. You know - we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God - ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

Helen Lawrenson

#3. The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

Aleister Crowley

#4. I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Matthew McConaughey

#5. Our bodies hummed with contentment.

Julia Child

#6. I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.

Lee Evans

#7. That's it. New rule: no more flirting during the zombie apocalypse

Alison Kemper

#8. There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. community, which

Malcolm Gladwell

#10. Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.

Tiger Woods

#11. I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#12. Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

Cynthia Tucker

#13. I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

Ethan Hawke

#14. The empty highway behind looked like a stretching rubber band.

Edward Anderson

#15. I believe it lures people on to acts of terrible evil by whispering to them that they will do good. That they'll make things not just a little better but all better.

Stephen King

#16. Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

Christopher Dawson