Jean Kerr Quotes

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.

I think we all have a little crazy in us.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Let all children come unto me.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences.

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.