Print Quotes - Page 39

• The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

  Mark Twain

  Book, Chloroform

  8 Copy quote

• collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Sports, Father, Passion

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Children, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

  15 Copy quote

  Show source