Jurgen Prochnow quotes

Jurgen Prochnow quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.”
-- Jurgen Prochnow

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“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”
“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”
“I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares”
“The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.”

Source : Harper's Magazine, Vol. 154, (p. 730), 1927.
“Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.”
“All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.”
“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”
“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”
“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

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