Khalil Gibran Quotes

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Khalil Gibran

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: lebanese
  • Birth: January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931

Topics

LifeFamilyChildrenYouBelong

My memory's pretty much gone.

Jim McMahon

MemoryPrettyGoneMuch

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

Max von Sydow

GreatActorDirectorWatchOnly

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

John Mahoney

FatherHellPersonPlayForgetKind

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

Anna Deavere Smith

TimeMoreOverEducatedStudents

In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.

John Tyler Bonner

DevelopmentBirthHumanBalloon

October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.

Trey Gowdy

SleepLawLanguageSleepingClear

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Julia Roberts

FunnyLoveAgeLightQualityYou

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.

Jon Gruden

ToughGoRelentlessOpponentSeem

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

Dick Dale

ComeOnstageExploding

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

Chrissie Hynde

WorkYouArtistMatterNeedPaint

I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.

Claudia Gray

TimeBabyChanceSelfLovedWish

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Brian Ferneyhough

RevolutionMeasureStructureConcrete

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