Tom Stoppard Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

• Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Generosity, Giving

  "Writer and fighter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2008.

• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

• There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Men, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Thinking, Order

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

• I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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