Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
– Tony Reinke
Related Quotes:
- Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. – William Faulkner
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
- I talk to children like adults and to adults like children. – Bryant McGill
- Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. – Tim Relf
- What is most decisive is God’s Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us. – Tony Reinke
- True happiness is not found. It finds you. – Tony Reinke
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. – Herodotus
- More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gugu Mona
- Today’s troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don’t want their children to have parents – Agona Apell
- Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do. – Billy Graham
- It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gift Gugu Mona
- Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Active-awareness combined with daily active-effort will compound to make a significant difference. – Akiroq Brost
- Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. – Novalis
- Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. – Stephen King
- Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents? – Ralph Webster
- Is there a magical age when children become parents to their parents? – Ralph Webster
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- A pretty face and a beautiful body can capture my attention, But only a beautiful and creative mind can hold it – Sam Eriakha
- n order to capture someone’s attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in. – Auliq Ice
- Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The problem with parents is that they’re adults. – Benjamin Alire Senz
- What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
- I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. – Frank Zappa
- She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. – Kate Chopin
- Horror make me awake and when I don’t think about it but I read it it make me sleepy! – Deyth Banger
- It’s strange to see people you don’t know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks – Veronica Roth
- She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve. – Laurie Lee
- I envythe cup of coffeethat getsto kissyour sleepy lipsawakeevery cold andbitter morning. – Sade Andria Zabala
- Here’s lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet! – James Joyce
- Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo — and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn’t help doing likewise. – Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things. – Natalie J Damschroder
- And he didn’t get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire. – John Steinbeck
- The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current – part of a continuum. – Sara Sheridan
- Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls. – Chris dLacey
- Halt! We are attempting an arrest!--œYeah, we’re aware,- Quinn muttered under her breath. – Ash Gray
- It is so good that you can love someone for how long you want and no one can arrest you for that crime. – MF Moonzajer
- Names didn’t matter; names were for toe tags and arrest warrants, not for revenge. – Chris Leek