“People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”

— Khaled Hosseini, book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn…" by Khaled Hosseini?

Khaled Hosseini226

novelist 1965

Tina Connolly American writer

Source: Ironskin (2012), Chapter 2, “Fey Light” (p. 26)

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”

Tim Powers book Last Call

Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Science books go out of date. We throw the old one away when a newer one comes out, when we have new theories. But we don't throw away our old data; we merely interpret them differently. New theories try to account for old data (and new data) in new ways.”

Guy Consolmagno (1952) American Jesuit, Catholic Priest, research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory.

[Consolmagno, Guy, Mueller, Paul, https://www.google.com/books?id=lf5vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16, 9780804136952, Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: And Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory, 16, 2014, Image]

“Yet the Opposition refused to extend the franchise unless they were assured that there would be some manipulation or re-arrangement of seats, which, would, in fact, be taking away with one hand what was given with the other. He regretted that proportional representation should have been introduced into the debate from that side of the House, for all these schemes were but new disguises for the old Tory distrust of the people.”

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1884/apr/03/second-reading-adjourned-debate-fifth in the House of Commons (3 April 1884).

“Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.”

Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose

Source: Angle of Repose

“Fair and sweet is our Heavenly Mother in the sight of our souls; precious and lovely are the Gracious Children in the sight of our Heavenly Mother, with mildness and meekness, and all the fair virtues that belong to children in Nature. For of nature the Child despaireth not of the Mother’s love, of nature the Child presumeth not of itself, of nature the Child loveth the Mother and each one of the other. These are the fair virtues, with all other that be like, wherewith our Heavenly Mother is served and pleased.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

Summations, Chapter 63

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

“All the love, all the love,
All the love we should have given.
All the love, all the love,
All the love you could have given.
All the love…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)

“People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Khaled Hosseini226

Related quotes

Related topics