Donald Barthelme Quotes

-There’s a thing the children say. -What do the children say? -They say: Will you always love me? -Always. -Will you always remember me? -Always. -Will you remember me a year from now? -Yes, I will. -Will you remember me two years from now? -Yes, I will. -Will you remember me five years from now? -Yes, I will. -Knock, knock. -Who’s there? -You see?

Donald Barthelme

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• My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Remember
  • More
  • Others

• I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Care

• If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Remember
  • Never
  • Forget

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Sunset

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Everything

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Funny
  • Alone

• Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

  

  John Norman
  • She
  • Girl

• Wearing a great shoe is essential for me.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Great

• -There’s a thing the children say. -What do the children say? -They say: Will you always love me? -Always. -Will you always remember me? -Always. -Will you remember me a year from now? -Yes, I will. -Will you remember me two years from now? -Yes, I will. -Will you remember me five years from now? -Yes, I will. -Knock, knock. -Who’s there? -You see?

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Children
  • Remember