Dave Eggers Quotes about Children

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The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Dave Eggers

Children, Cutting, Building

Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.93, Vintage

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

Dave Eggers

Children, Cities, San Francisco

Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

Dave Eggers

Life, Dream, Children

Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

Dave Eggers Quotes about Children

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