John Updike Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

  John Updike

  Zoos, Children, Mirrors

• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Educational

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

• The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

  John Updike

  Children, Tomatoes, Paper

  John Updike (2007). “The Witches of Eastwick”, p.8, Penguin UK

• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

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  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

• Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

  John Updike

  Children, Thinking, Race

• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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  Children, Men, Ice Cream

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.244, Random House

• The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

  John Updike

  Children, Boys, Differences

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.132, Random House

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