D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Children Quotes, Freedom Quotes

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Children Quotes , Men Quotes

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Children Quotes , Father Quotes

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Children Quotes , Feelings Quotes

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Children Quotes , Worry Quotes

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Children Quotes

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Children Quotes , Genius Quotes

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Children Quotes , Fire Quotes

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Children Quotes , Kissing Quotes

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

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Tags : Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes , Children Quotes , Yoga Quotes

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Children Quotes , Thinking Quotes

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Children Quotes , Love You 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

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

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Tags : Aasif Mandvi Quotes , Children Quotes , Character Quotes

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Children Quotes , Forever Quotes

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Children Quotes , Men Quotes

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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