Why Quotes About Strangers?
Strangers are people we meet for the first time or people we don't know. They could later become very important in our lives or remain strangers.
Sometimes they could later become only friends or get really close to us and become like family to us. Many of the quotes on strangers come from top personalities like Stephen Elliott, Richard Rodriguez, and Kurt Vonnegut.
What Parents Should Know
- Parents may keep their children safe from harmful strangers by teaching them about strangers and suspicious behavior, as well as adopting a few safeguards themselves.
- Perhaps the most essential method parents can safeguard their children is to teach them to be alert of potentially harmful circumstances - this will assist them when dealing with strangers as well as with known people who may not have good intentions.
- Aid children identify warning signals of suspicious conduct, such as when an adult encourages them to disobey their parents or do something without permission, asks them to maintain a secret, begs youngsters for help, or otherwise make them feel uncomfortable.
What To Discuss With Kids
- No one can determine if strangers are pleasant or not merely by looking at them and you should be cautious with all strangers.
- Pretty strangers may be equally as hazardous as unattractive ones.
- Children can approach safe strangers for assistance when they need it. Officers of the law and firemen are two examples of well-known safe strangers. Teachers, administrators, and librarians are individuals in whom children may put their faith, and they are easily identified while they are at work.
Funny Quotes About Strangers
Here is a list of the top funny quotes about strangers:
"This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw whatever you like on their impressionable surfaces.” –Janet Fitch
"In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" But, "What can he do?"" -Benjamin Franklin
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." -Alfred Adler
"Gemma Stone is convinced that it's always unseemly to chuck a birkett and that it's actually insane to chuck one in front of a complete stranger." -Lisa Shanahan, 'My Big Birkett'
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” -Mark Twain
"Karl was shy around bears he didn't know." -Addy, 'The School Of Life'
Quotes About Strangers Becoming Lovers
These quotes explore how strangers can easily become lovers:
"A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him." -Lisa Kleypas
"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles, It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." -H.Jackson Brown Jr.
"Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger." -Stella Benson, 'To The Unborn'
"It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect." -Mae West
"Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear and you will be a stranger to yourself." -Unknown*
Quotes About Strangers Becoming Best Friends
These quotes explore how strangers can easily become friends:
"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't met yet." -William Butler Yeats
"Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." -Chief Tecumseh, 'Live Your Life'
"Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in heaven
Where friendship never ends" -Raheel Sharif
"Train compartments are odd affairs to begin with. Complete strangers find themselves together here and after a few hours know each other so well, it's as if they've been best friends for years." -Narrator, 'Emil And The Detectives'
"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers." -Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." -Maya Angelou
"His mom said Boots never knew a stranger, which meant she thought everybody in the world was her friend." -Gregor, 'Gregor The Overlander', Suzanne Collins
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -Blanche DuBois
"It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers." -Paula Hawkins
"I'm a stranger, you're a stranger, together we are... strangers." -Alice, 'Once Upon a Time in Wonderland'
"A dog, particularly an exotic like Charley, is a bond between strangers." -'Travels With Charley In Search of America'
"I do hope Papa can tell Sister about strangers without making everyone scary." -'The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers'
Miscellaneous Quotes About Strangers
Here is a list of the top miscellaneous quotes about strangers:
"Strangers are endearing because you don't know them yet." -Dejan Stojanovic
"I have been a stranger in a foreign land." -Mosses, 'Exodus 2:22'
"I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made." -A.E. Housman
'Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.' -Melody Beattie
"We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced." -Robert Charles Wilson, 'Spin'
"For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world, finding it so much like myself." -Albert Camus,'The Stranger'
"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."-Mitch Albom, 'The Five People You Meet In Heaven'
"Thank you! Thank you!' Isabel cried. Her heart ached with gratitude toward these people. Just a moment's kindness from each of them might mean the difference between death and survival for her mother and everyone else on the little raft." -'Refugee'
"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think." -Werner Heisenberg
"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."-Barbara Bush
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."-Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
"Anyone can betray anyone." -Julian Jacos, 'Red Queen', Victoria Aveyard
"Most folks are friendly and nice and wouldn't hurt a fly. But you have to be careful just in case." -'The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers'
"She is not fashioned for a life among strangers." -Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"There's something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home." -Paula Hawkins, 'The Girl On The Train'
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