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There are some others that account wife and children but as bills of charge.
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
All God's Chillum Got Rhythm. 454
You Americans donot rearchildren, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause.
A woman who is veryanxious to get children always reads 'storks'for 'stocks'.
To create forms means: to live. Are not children more creative in drawing directly from the secret of their sensations than the imitator of Greek forms? Are not savages artists who have forms of their own powerful as the form of thunder?
Whenever people have asked me which among my novels is my favourite I have always evaded a direct answer, being strongly of the mind that in sheer invidiousness that question is fully comparable to asking a man to list his children in the order in which he loves them. A paterfamilias worth his salt will, if he must, speak about the peculiar attractiveness of each child.
And said,Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
Look at me! Look at myarm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head meöand ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de lash as wellöand ar'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteenchilernandseen'emmos'allsoldoff intoslavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heardöand ar'n't I a woman?
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces upöexecute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
Familiarity breeds contemptöand children.
Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it'll be great game to see if there's none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,ö My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. See Horace 413:23.
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good- looking, and all the children are above average.
Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yetthey are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.
Lo, children are an heritage of the L: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose.
Les enfants sont hautains, de¤ daigneux, cole' res, envieux, curieux, inte¤ resse¤ s, paresseux, volages, timides, intempe¤ rants, menteurs, dissimule¤ sils ne veulent point souffrir de mal, et aiment a' en faire: ils sont de¤ j a' des hommes. Children are haughty, disdainful, angry, envious, curious, interested, lazy, fickle, shy, self-indulgent, liars, deceiversthey do not wish to suffer evil, but like to do evil: theyare already adults.
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farmyard 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.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore And that's what parents were created for.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children being now come to the years of discretion.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.Lines of light ranged inthenon- space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
If we have violated any law, it was not done intentionally. We have injured no man's reputation, character, person, or property.We were meeting together to preserve ourselves, our wives, and our children from utter degradation and starvation.
For all the dinners are cooked; the plates and cups washed; the children sent to school and gone out into the world.Nothing remains of it all. All has vanished. No biography or history has a word to say about it.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
Les enfants n'ont ni passe¤ ni avenir, et, ce qui ne nous arrive gue' re, ils jouissent du pre¤ sent. Children have neither past nor future. They live in the present, something which rarely happens to us.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
Childrenhave no use for psychology.
Where are the children I might have had? Drowned to the accompaniment of the rattling of a thousand douche bags.
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the orderof nature and causes parentsto inter theirchildren.
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?öCome, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
I have to say Miss Brown, that your methods are outdatedand incorrect.Butthechildrenloveyouand are learning well.Do not on any account make any changes.
Theschool that Iwenttointhenorthwas a school where more than half the children in my class never had any boots or shoes to their feet. They wore clogs, because they lasted longer than shoes of comparable price. See Bulmer-Thomas166:55.
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistakebut the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs isthe kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessedarethepeacemakers: for theyshall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness'sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessedare ye, whenmenshall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.
The children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
As you, the children of my body, have been my tasks, so too are my other works.
And Sir Richard said again: 'We be all good English men. Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil, For I never turned my back upon Don or devil yet.'
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
It is said that the children of the poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's childrenwill becomethanfor the children one's'mature' critics often are.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Ihave only toomuch of awife inthis art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if theyare naught, will live a while.
Political history isfar too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young.Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterlyabolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Children, to be illustrious is sad.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.
In most families it is the children who leave home. In mine it was the parents.
I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will oneday liveinanationwherethey will not bejudged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.
Il a e¤ te¤ permis de craindre que la Re¤ volution, comme Saturne, de¤ vora" t successivement tous ses enfants. There is reason to fear that the Revolution may, like Saturn, devour each of her children one by one.
All the same, you know parentsöespecially step- parentsöare sometimes a disappointment to their children.Theydon'tfulfil thepromise oftheirearly years.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one,Ifeel.Thereare only individual egos, crazy for love.
Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children.One finger in thethroat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.
There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the L pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
In America there are two classes of travelöfirst class, and with children.
For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!
For some time I watch the coming of the night Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.
First, It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
They find pearlsby theseashore, diamondsand rubiesin certain cliffs, but never go out of set purpose to look for them.If they happento find some, they polishthem, and give them to the children who, when they are small, feel proud and pleased with such gaudy decorations. But after, when they grow a bit older, and notice that only babies like such toys, they lay them aside. Their parents don't have to sayanything, they simply put these trifles away out of a shamefaced sense that they're no longer suitable, just as our children when they grow up put away their rattles, marbles and dolls.
If Her Majesty's Government be really desirous of seeing a well-conducted community spring up in these Colonies, the social wants of the people must be considered For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony veryappropriately called 'God's police'öwives and little childrenögood and virtuous women. 213
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig- tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poetI saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.
I think if you had ever written a book you were absolutely pleased with, you'd never write another. The same probably goes for having children.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of thegreat and dreadfuldayof the L: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth a curse.
Alas, alas, how easilya priest begets children and with what difficulty he provides for them; a priest I meanwho is extravagant enough to keep a conscience; a point wherein our profession commits (I must say) little excess.
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.
What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortalsoul inthesame circlewiththewolf, thehyena, and theskunk? What must betheimpressionmadeupon children by such a degradation of man?
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attachtoomuch importancetothenegative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
But wisdom is justified of her children.
Ithink it iswellalsofor themaninthestreettorealizethat there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through.The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly thanthe enemy if you want to save yourselves.
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.
Ihave justcausetomakea pitiful defence of poor poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning is 790
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
The oldölike childrenötalk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the onlyears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Literature ismostlyabout having sex and not muchabout having children. Life is the other way round.
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
His big tears, for he wept well, Turned to mill-stones as they fell. And the little children, who Round his feet played to and fro, Thinking every tear a gem, Had their brains knocked out by them.
Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
There's almost as many different sorts of marriage as there's different sorts of people. There's the young things that marry for love, not knowing what they're doing, and the old things that marry for moneyand comfort and companionship. There's the people that marry for children. There's the people that don't intend to have children and that aren't fit to have them. There's the peoplethat marry becausethey're so much run after by the other sex that they have to put a stop to it somehow. There's the people that want to trya new experience, and the people that want to have done with experiences.
Men are as chancyas children in their choice of playthings.
Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.
We must become children again if we wish to achieve the best.
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb upon his knees the envied kiss to share.
He who battles with the immortals does not live long, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has returned from battle.
Le divorce a ordinairement une grande utilite¤ politique;
Novelists, whatever else they may be besides, are also children talking to childrenöin the dark.
Weary men, what reap ye?öGolden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?öHuman corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldiersöwhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were deadö Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
My parents kept me from children who were rough Whothrew wordslikestones and who woretornclothes
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance money.
There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get children. In the meantime, in between time, Ain't we got fun.
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Avoice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
The rich don't have children; they have heirs.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children, and from fools.
You probably know, the better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligentenoughto comehomeagain.Thenthey'retoo old and intelligent to want to.
For Ithe Lord thy God ama jealous God, and visitthesins ofthefathersuponthe childrenuntothethird and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments.
I'm spending my children's inheritance.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
I take my place with the children.
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Don't wait for schools to be built. Teach the children under the nearest tree.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are na|«ve.
Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you everywhere, But weigh this song with the great and their pride; I made it out of a mouthful of air, Their children's children shall say they have lied.
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Palmerston
They were privileged childrenthey would always expect to be greeted with smiles.
Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications. Adults never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Today, children,Iam going totell you about thehistoryof Mr.Blackmaninthreesentences.Inthebeginning hehad the land and the mind and the soul together.On the secondday, they took thebodyaway tobarter itforsilver coins.On the third day, seeing that he was still fighting back, they brought priests and educators to bind his mind and soul so that these foreigners could more easily take his land and produce.
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.
We are the trade union for pensioners and children; the tradeunionfor the disabledand thesick; thetradeunion for the nation as a whole.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
The secret things belong unto the L our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children forever, that we maydoall the words of this law.
In retrospect it always seems as if everything had to develop just the way it did. I call this view the fallacy of retrospective determinismöwhich looks at the modern world as a victory of the children of light over the children of darkness if we approve of the development, and of darkness over light if we condemn it.
Wars are fought by childrenöconceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.
'Sink me the ship, Master Gunnerösink her, split her in twain! Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!' And the gunner said 'Ay, ay,' but the seamen made reply: 'We have children we have wives, And the Lord hath spared our lives.'
Well, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be something out o' kilter. I tink dat 'twixt de niggers of de Soufandde womenat de Norf allatalkin''bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with the children And who could have let him in?
Ohprams on concretebalconies, what will yourchildren see?
Sometimes when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dadöa finding of limited use to backlash publicists.
All glory, laud and honour To Thee,Redeemer, King, To whom the lips of children Made sweet hosannas ring.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for theyare impediments to great enterprises, eitherof virtue or mischief.Certainly thebest works, and ofgreatest meritfor thepublic, haveproceededfromthe unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights.
Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweepand reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
When the world was young it begat more children; but now it is old it begets fewer: for I may justlyaccount new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms.
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.
Young children [are] sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.
Your children are not your children. Theyare the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you And though theyare with you yetthey belong nottoyou. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies, but not their souls.
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