Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Children Quotes, Dark Quotes

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Children Quotes , Long Quotes

In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.

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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.

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What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Children Quotes , What Matters Quotes

A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Children Quotes , Eye Quotes

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Parent Quotes

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Children Quotes , Wall Quotes

In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

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People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

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I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Children Quotes , Echoes Quotes

When a child is in crisis, parents should have a role and a voice. They should be the first to help, not the last to know.

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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Children Quotes , Parent Quotes

Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Children Quotes , Honesty Quotes

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.

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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Children Quotes , Heart Quotes

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Children Quotes , Humble Quotes

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Business Quotes

He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Strong Quotes , Children Quotes