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I have children, I'll certainly do so. I'll tell them outright that they're important and that they're beautiful.
Mairead Corrigan PEACE, 1976
414. I have lived in a world of children and of child humor, child fantasy, and child passions for four decades. If only I can grow old, foolishly old in this same world—if it is my fate to grow old—I shall be most fortunate.
Carleton Gajdusek MEDICINE, 1976
415. I've written maybe thirty books, I don't remember exactly; but I have five children, and that is my real blessing.
Knut Hamsun LITERATURE, 1920
416. To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
Nelson Mandela PEACE, 1993
417. Unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
418. All kids are scientists. They're born scientists. They ask all these terrible questions that nobody can answer because they're scientists. So, what do you do? You beat that curiosity out of them and they stop asking questions. It's very hard to survive that.
Leon Lederman PHYSICS, 1988
419. Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
Toni Morrison LITERATURE, 1993
420. Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community—everybody—to raise a child.
Toni Morrison LITERATURE, 1993
421. The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
422. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu PEACE, 1984
423. Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
André Gide LITERATURE, 1947
424. Family solidarity is after all the only good thing.
Marie Curie PHYSICS, 1903; CHEMISTRY, 1911
FRIENDSHIP
425. When the ways of friends converge, the whole world looks like home for an hour.
Hermann Hesse LITERATURE, 1946
426. Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats LITERATURE, 1923
427. When the whole world's against you, the thousandth man will stand your friend.
Rudyard Kipling LITERATURE, 1907
428. I said earlier that love is tragic; I add here that friendship is a response to tragedy.
Octavio Paz LITERATURE, 1990
429. If you sacrifice a friend in a difficult hour, you never make another friend again.
Shimon Peres PEACE, 1994
430. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat PEACE, 1994
SOLITUDE AND LONELINESS
431. Today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
432. Solitude is the grandest prize that anybody could receive.
Camilo José Cela LITERATURE, 1989
433. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
434. My whole life presents a unity. Everything I have done, even my writing, grows out of a fascinated interest in human beings, in the wonders of their minds and hearts, their sensitivities, their needs, and the essential loneliness of their position in the universe.
Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
435. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck LITERATURE, 1911
436. Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'Neill LITERATURE, 1936
437. Nearly all the great creators were almost recluses. Either one has many ideas and few friends, or many friends and few ideas.
Santiago Ramony Cajal MEDICINE, 1906
438. In the West there is loneliness, which I call the leprosy of the West. In many ways it is worse than our poor in Calcutta.
Mother Teresa PEACE, 1979
439. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into
Mairead Corrigan PEACE, 1976
414. I have lived in a world of children and of child humor, child fantasy, and child passions for four decades. If only I can grow old, foolishly old in this same world—if it is my fate to grow old—I shall be most fortunate.
Carleton Gajdusek MEDICINE, 1976
415. I've written maybe thirty books, I don't remember exactly; but I have five children, and that is my real blessing.
Knut Hamsun LITERATURE, 1920
416. To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.
Nelson Mandela PEACE, 1993
417. Unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
418. All kids are scientists. They're born scientists. They ask all these terrible questions that nobody can answer because they're scientists. So, what do you do? You beat that curiosity out of them and they stop asking questions. It's very hard to survive that.
Leon Lederman PHYSICS, 1988
419. Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
Toni Morrison LITERATURE, 1993
420. Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community—everybody—to raise a child.
Toni Morrison LITERATURE, 1993
421. The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
422. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu PEACE, 1984
423. Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
André Gide LITERATURE, 1947
424. Family solidarity is after all the only good thing.
Marie Curie PHYSICS, 1903; CHEMISTRY, 1911
FRIENDSHIP
425. When the ways of friends converge, the whole world looks like home for an hour.
Hermann Hesse LITERATURE, 1946
426. Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats LITERATURE, 1923
427. When the whole world's against you, the thousandth man will stand your friend.
Rudyard Kipling LITERATURE, 1907
428. I said earlier that love is tragic; I add here that friendship is a response to tragedy.
Octavio Paz LITERATURE, 1990
429. If you sacrifice a friend in a difficult hour, you never make another friend again.
Shimon Peres PEACE, 1994
430. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat PEACE, 1994
SOLITUDE AND LONELINESS
431. Today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown.
Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
432. Solitude is the grandest prize that anybody could receive.
Camilo José Cela LITERATURE, 1989
433. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
434. My whole life presents a unity. Everything I have done, even my writing, grows out of a fascinated interest in human beings, in the wonders of their minds and hearts, their sensitivities, their needs, and the essential loneliness of their position in the universe.
Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
435. We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck LITERATURE, 1911
436. Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'Neill LITERATURE, 1936
437. Nearly all the great creators were almost recluses. Either one has many ideas and few friends, or many friends and few ideas.
Santiago Ramony Cajal MEDICINE, 1906
438. In the West there is loneliness, which I call the leprosy of the West. In many ways it is worse than our poor in Calcutta.
Mother Teresa PEACE, 1979
439. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into
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