The children of dreamers dream.
From Before We Were Young, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man who feeds the jays on Pullman Street was out again with his folding chair, telling anyone who slowed down about the orchard he meant to plant on the lot behind the hardware store. He has been meaning it since before the hardware store closed. His daughter came to walk him home and stood a while first, looking at that same empty lot, and I watched her look at it the way he does, measuring rows. For years I thought the children of such men grew up careful, that watching a thing never get built would teach them to build small. The children of dreamers dream. She did not say anything about the orchard; she just took his chair and folded it, and they went up the hill arguing about apples or pears.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- Life’s a ball if you know how to bounce it.
- Oh, for a family like a flock of noisy birds nesting in a nearby wood!
- There are few heavy hearts that an hour building sand castles won't make lighter.
- Life is suffering, especially when you fall out of your chair laughing at it.
- Children should be seen and not herded.
- Family life is a test by campfire.