Nick Hornby Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• (About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Sleep, Things In Life

• It takes a child to say the unsayable.

  Nick Hornby

  Children

• He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Personality, Talent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.40, Penguin UK

• He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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