Pierre Loti Quotes

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.

Children are our future, and God loves the children.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

Spread your wings and let me come inside.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.