A Quote by A. N. Wilson

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
English - Writer
Born: October 27, 1950

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Samuel Richardson

It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

Simon Rich

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

Agatha Christie

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

Ellen Greene

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

Anne Michaels

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

John Updike

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

Stanley Ho

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

Peter S. Beagle

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

Gail Bradbrook

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Dean Koontz

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

Henry B. Eyring

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

Henry Kirke White

The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.