Charles Dickens Quotes, Children Quotes, Character Quotes

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

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People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Children Quotes , Spring Quotes

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

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

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Dad Quotes , Children Quotes

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

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Tags : Alan Garner Quotes , Children Quotes , Attitude Quotes

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Brother Quotes , Children Quotes

It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Children Quotes , Should Have Quotes

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Children Quotes

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Children Quotes , Charity Quotes

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Children Quotes , Honesty Quotes

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Mother Quotes , Children Quotes

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

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Tags : Abraham Polonsky Quotes , Children Quotes , Growing Up Quotes

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Time Quotes , Children Quotes

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Children Quotes , Native Language Quotes

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Mother Quotes , Children 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

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Children Quotes , Cutting Quotes