The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.


Alden Nowlan

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS SZASZ
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ
Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE
Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE
As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE
I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE
These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE
The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE
They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG
This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI
The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI
They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI
We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI
Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG
This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG
I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG
The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG
The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN
The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN
Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI
Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he th...
LEWIS B HERSHEY
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he th...
LEWIS B HERSHEY
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he th...
LEWIS B. HERSHEY
Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
When a man's learning becomes stagnant he becomes an expert otherwise an intelligent!
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing ...
THOMAS MERTON
He who forgives ends the quarrel
SOURCE UNKNOWN
These are the moments that form a connection, which in turn becomes a sort of life-preserver for the...
DR. DAVID WALSH
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
CATHERINE THE GREAT
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDAL
In the object which he contemplates … man becomes acquainted with himself.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
HELMUT SCHOECK
An electrician gets excited when he fixes a problem, but an engineer becomes more excited when he pr...
HAPPY MUDIMELI
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.
RICK JOYNER
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
LEWIS B. SMEDES
A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted....
CURTIS JACKSON
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A ...
CRISS JAMI
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...
JOHN WESLEY
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...
JOHN WESLEY
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thou...
PHILLIP BROOKS
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil...
VEDA UPANISHADS
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certa...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out...
ERIC HOFFER
God is love—He is gracious and forgives.
JIM GEORGE
In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When t...
CHUANG-TZU
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blacke...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
It pretty much becomes an off-leash day every day. That's what's happening now again.
CAROL MAJESKE
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
He who thinks becomes clever throw the schools educational system Is foolish to think so for he is f...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural pov...
ALDEN NOWLAN
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
ALDEN NOWLAN
I couldn't help being a part of my race. A race that continued to be tough. It was possible for me t...
ALDEN NOWLAN
I am not a doctrinaire of any kind. I'm still searching. Sometimes I call myself an anarchist, but I...
ALDEN NOWLAN
Growing up is never straight forward.
There are moments when everything is fine, and other mome...
ALDEN NOWLAN
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
WILLIAM PENN
When the powerful uses the power, he becomes powerless.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
MAHATMA GANDHI
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas ...
WILLEM DE KOONING
• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI
The documents he signed indicated that he understood the potential risks and rewards of day trading....
JAMES LEE
As day becomes night and as night becomes day, no matter what I will always pray
STEVEN ESPINOSA
All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which...
TOVE JANSSON
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. MENCKEN
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself a...
MARY WILSON LITTLE
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h...
ROBIN WRIGHT
I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he...
EVAN ANDERSON
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes t...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
He and his girlfriend are expecting their first child and he is still in Sweden because the child is...
LARS LAGERBACK
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
MENCIUS
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
MENCIUS
He becomes the most sought-after lawyer once it is discovered he is actually a rat.
KELSEY GRAMMER
Hockey is a game where intimidation is still a part of the game, and you'll go to great lengths to t...
DAVE TIPPETT
The world becomes more competitive, every day,
JEFF IMMELT
Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who ar...
JOHN HOLT
The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when th...
DADA BHAGWAN
When he becomes involved in something, he becomes very involved. He becomes very passionate and take...
MIKE WISE
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to...
ELIAS CANETTI
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milest...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
He'd just run, run all the time, and he walks about, doesn't he, he never stops. I think that they p...
ALBERT FINNEY
When my son left Sunnyside he was on fire. The first day he went to public school he wanted to do it...
ELLA RIOS
A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
YIDDISH PROVERB
The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches fo...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know t...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than ...
HENRY C. LINK

More Alden Nowlan

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural pov...
ALDEN NOWLAN
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
ALDEN NOWLAN
I couldn't help being a part of my race. A race that continued to be tough. It was possible for me t...
ALDEN NOWLAN
I am not a doctrinaire of any kind. I'm still searching. Sometimes I call myself an anarchist, but I...
ALDEN NOWLAN
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgi...
ALDEN NOWLAN
Growing up is never straight forward.
There are moments when everything is fine, and other mome...
ALDEN NOWLAN
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
They made way too many errors.
ALDEN RICHARDS
We'll take it one game at a time.
ALDEN RICHARDS
Errors, errors. That's what really hurt us.
ALDEN RICHARDS
They hit well. I see a little toughness in them.
ALDEN RICHARDS
Housing is still a big issue. We can only move back employees who have been able to find a place to ...
ALDEN MCDONALD
All those people you're seeing relocated to Houston, Dallas, northern Louisiana, across the country ...
ALDEN MCDONALD
Hell, that's where I lived.
ALDEN MCDONALD
Where you saw water up to the rooftops. That's where my customer base lived. My employees lived out ...
ALDEN MCDONALD
My plan is to have friends and corporations and other banks around the country send me $100,000 depo...
ALDEN MCDONALD
I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation: it's a calling. You have an inner intui...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
It is now more significant in the air business which requires us to lease planes for a short period ...
JOHN ALDEN
We used to see a very large growth in our ground business,
JOHN ALDEN
I am delighted that we have found money for the refurbishment of many of our leisure facilities, inc...
JOHN ALDEN
We do not have unlimited capital. If we cannot make the new library sustainable for future generatio...
JOHN ALDEN
It's like a major sporting event you're competing in. You're prepared and you know you're the best y...
JOHN ALDEN
Birmingham is participating in a national programme of commemorations to mark the bicentenary of the...
JOHN ALDEN
Unfortunately, in this particular case, some of our initial communication played out in a way that w...
MIKE ALDEN
We're getting ready to introduce a new basketball coach. Nothing makes sense here right now.
MIKE ALDEN
He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.
MIKE ALDEN
This is the conclusion of a very unfortunate situation for a young man that we worked very hard with...
MIKE ALDEN
I wouldn't term it all as a directive. He just talked to him to kind of gauge how things are going.
MIKE ALDEN
I had a meeting with the producer of 'Five Easy Pieces,' which is my favorite movie. He intr...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
That's what an obit is supposed to be-a picture, a snapshot. It's not a full-length biography, it's ...
ALDEN WHITMAN
Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more ...
ALDEN WHITMAN
Most damage is scattered throughout the state, it's not really concentrated. The damage is mostly po...
ALDEN TAYLOR
Several counties have declared snow emergencies, meaning people should stay off the roads. There are...
ALDEN TAYLOR
[There are] a lot of houses damaged, trees down, shopping centers with roofs peeled back.
ALDEN TAYLOR
I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especi...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
...and she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Bl...
ALDEN BELL
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
ANDREW ALDEN
When you get to be my age," Maude said "most things were a long time ago. But in here?" She tapped h...
LAURA ALDEN
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
ROBERT ALDEN
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle
ROBERT ALDEN
Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt w...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.
ALDEN BELL
I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impa...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a g...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff li...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Something that is appealing to me about old Hollywood is job security.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, ...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I made short films in school.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
The people I see every day have known me since I was a little fat kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Bro...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serio...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't wan...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
PAULETTE BATES ALDEN
I still have no idea what happened to that other employee.
ALDEN MCDONALD JR
Where you saw water up to the rooftops? That's where my customer base lived. My employees lived out ...
ALDEN MCDONALD JR
It's reality that's bringing this about. We're going to have a loss of population, real simple. If y...
ALDEN MCDONALD JR
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What pa...
ISABELLA MACDONALD ALDEN
[S]isters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would.
ISABELLA MACDONALD ALDEN
Housing is still a big issue. We can only move back employees who have been able to find a place to ...
ALDEN J. MCDONALD JR
All those people you're seeing relocated to Houston, Dallas, northern Louisiana, across the country ...
ALDEN J. MCDONALD JR
Hell, that's where I lived.
ALDEN J. MCDONALD JR
Where you saw water up to the rooftops. That's where my customer base lived. My employees lived out ...
ALDEN J. MCDONALD JR
My plan is to have friends and corporations and other banks around the country send me $100,000 depo...
ALDEN J. MCDONALD JR