Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the ‘walks’ of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
– Bruce Chatwin
Related Quotes:
- God doesn’t NEED raw material. He MAKES material. – Matt Chandler
- Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I’d want to murder. – Bruce Chatwin
- The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot. – Bruce Chatwin
- A journey is a fragment of Hell. – Bruce Chatwin
- Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. – Bruce Chatwin
- It feels good when the one you owe walks with you. It feels ecstatic when the one you don’t owe walks. – Shweta Suvarna
- And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman
- Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made. – Sunday Adelaja
- Time is the raw material from which money is made. – Sunday Adelaja
- Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made. – Sunday Adelaja
- Time is the raw material for creation – Sunday Adelaja
- The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling. – Peter F Hamilton
- This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. – Michael Cunningham
- Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. – Lawrence Durrell
- The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. – Eugene H Peterson
- School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion – Shavasti – Shavasti
- Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it. – Michael R LeGault
- Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood. – Marcel Proust
- But, as Bruce Wayne will attest…you have to spend money to make money. – Bruce Wayne
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- A writer walks in nature to wonder. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- All I know is, a writer ever walks into Homicide looking to shadow someone, I’m shooting them on-sight. – JD Cunegan
- … the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’… – Marcel Proust
- My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
- Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I’m desperately wishes… – Hira Shahid Kazim
- There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere. – Sadghuru
- Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young. – Julian Barnes
- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
- Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
- Life really is the chance to experience the material world in whatever form desired. – Steven Redhead
- When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth. – Chris Matakas
- Thought isn’t a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered. – Vladimir I Vernadsky
- Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction. – Sara Sheridan
- A strong work ethic is a form of accountability, because it involves keeping a promise to one’s employer. It is not the same thing as workaholism. – Bruce Weinstein