He tells himself, 'My flower's up there somewhere.' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, even without realizing what he's doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers?. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. "For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. You have to tell them, "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs." Then they exclaim, "What a pretty house!"
Find the little man windows#
If you tell grown-ups, "I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof.," they won't be able to imagine such a house. They ask: "How old is he?" "How many brothers does he have?" "How much does he weigh?" "How much money does his father make?" Only then do they think they know him. They never ask: "What does his voice sound like?" "What games does he like best?" "Does he collect butterflies?". When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. But no one believed him on account of the way he was dressed. This asteroid has been sighted only once by telescope, in 1909 by a Turkish astronomer, who had then made a formal demonstration of his discovery at an International Astronomonical Congress. I have serious reasons to believe that the planet the little prince came from is Asteroid B-612. which haven't much improved my opinion of them. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people.
Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again. Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Calvin's partner, Percy, after getting smacked in the face with a trashcan lid.The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little PrinceĪll grown-ups were children first.Heel≯ace Turn: Calvin, after realising Darryl and Vanessa truly care for him.Groin Attack: Calvin is fond of this manoeuvre.Gag Penis: Darryl and Vanessa find out that Calvin has one during a diaper change.Vanessa then walks in and awakens Darryl and berates him for "sleeping while watching Calvin", leaving poor Darryl completely baffled. He then drags Darryl's unconscious body to the den and places him on the couch to make it look like he was sleeping there. Eventually, Calvin gets tired of it and whacks Darryl on the head with a frying pan, knocking him out. Frying Pan of Doom: Darryl tries to play a game of peekaboo with "baby" Calvin.Freudian Excuse: Calvin didn't have a family growing up, which explains his criminal ways and getting too used to being Darryl's friend.Doorstop Baby: How Calvin manages to get in the Edwards household.Dinky Drivers: Calvin gets in a car and drives it by using a toy bat to move the pedals.Dating What Daddy Hates: Pops makes it clear that he does not approve of Vanessa and Darryl's relationship and even encourages his daughter to dump him.Made worse by the fact that her dad is paranoid and judgmental, and constantly belittles Darryl.