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| There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. |
| by Hodding Carter Jr. |
| There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. |
| by Victor Hugo |
| The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. |
| by Henry Ward Beecher |
| Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. |
| by William Penn |
| If parents would only realize how they bore their children! |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. |
| by William Cullen Bryant |
| Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and theyre doing pretty well, all things considered. |
| by Richard Louv |
| Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy. |
| by Bill Vaughan |
| If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give. |
| by Tyron Edwards |
| The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. |
| by Thomas Hardy |
| Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. |
| by Lazarus Long |
| Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. |
| by Sara Teasdale |
| Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced..."the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunction: You Must Adjust. |
| by Robert M. Lindner |
| The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. |
| by Gloria Steinem |
| Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the starsall the beauties of creation. |
| by Victor Hugo |
| And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; there in they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber stamps. |
| by H.L. Mencken |
| The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, "Keep tomorrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun. |
| by G.K. Chesterson |
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