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children pride men
There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
children father heart
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
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.
children grieving two
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
children father past
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
edge turns twice
The only edge I know is I've been around turns twice and he hasn't. Dan Hendricks
edge flag heard landing neil planting somehow
We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.
edge frontier hopes stand today unknown
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
edge establish fire hits invincible loss people
We have to get better. We have to establish that edge and fire in each and every one of us. People put out there that we're invincible and each loss out there kind of hits us over our head.
edges competencies knows
It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it. Charlie Munger
edge football hope leaving opening plays talking
We're just on the edge of exploding. We're leaving a lot of plays out there on the football field, a lot of them, and, if we make those plays, you'll be talking about how we're overachieving right now. We're just one play away from opening this thing up, and I hope that it happens.
edge explosive growth
(Manhattan) is on the edge of very explosive growth. Ralph Johnson
edge knowledge people reaching science scientist thinking works
I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it. Stefan Hell
edge far fast hunters lower taken
So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.
phantoms bombs strike-back
Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms. Ben Affleck
phantoms sculpture painting
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
phantoms firsts roles
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform. Gerard Butler
phantoms meg my-favorite
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile. Karin Slaughter
wanderers
We were wanderers from the beginning. Carl Sagan
wandering-around usual conscious
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... Dodie Smith
wandered
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal. Mike Birbiglia
wander jew
Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews. Hugo Chavez
wander mortals
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life. Homer
wandering
How do you think I'm doing? ... Wandering Josh.
wander absolute-truth absolutes
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander. Louis Agassiz
wander
I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life. Michael Caine
wander diversion
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. Walker Percy
writers-and-writing writing-by-writers
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writers written
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writers
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
writers
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Claire Tomalin
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writers-and-writing
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul