Alain de Botton Quotes

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

GoodWordsPainChildParentsWorld

I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.

Jim Sensenbrenner

HistoryCountryDoneMoreThanElse

People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.

Joe R. Lansdale

PeopleReadingWorthNowOthersUp

We sold 'Seinfeld' all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.

Jerry Seinfeld

WorldDownKindOthersOverWell

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

SchoolPeopleMeStoryGenderYou

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Steve Martin

BeautifulMoneyBelieveSexBuy

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

Sia

MyselfEnergyFamousMoreGotMuch

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Tom Robbins

WallsWritingRichStrangeEmpty

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Michelle Obama

EducationStruggleYouKnowNeed

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.

Mohit Chauhan

LoveExperienceWillFilmDifferent

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

Louis Oosthuizen

GolfEnjoyGardenAfricaUpRoute

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Chief Joseph

FatherManWhiteFirstSeeThrough

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Anton Chekhov

NatureSeaMeaningPityNorNeither

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