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mother children pride
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. Charles Dickens
mother determination father
what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been Charles Dickens
mother children heart
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom. Charles Dickens
mother sweet pain
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. Charles Dickens
mother nature garden
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind... Charles Dickens
mother nature children
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment." Charles Dickens
mother butterfly garden
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved. Charles Dickens
mother abode wells
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode. Charles Dickens
mother errors reform
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. Charles Simmons
passing-away today world
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world. Diana Gabaldon
passing-away deeds literature
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation. Austin O'Malley
passing-away tough difficult
It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you. Anthony Jeselnik
passing-away doe world
While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes. Elif Safak
passing-away easy tales
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones. Ashton Kutcher
passing-away together dozen
It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. Joseph Addison
passing-away world fleeting
The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay? Lucian
passing-away shadow earth
One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you. Henry Miller
passing-away
It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to. Jeff Foxworthy
decay bud eating
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. William Shakespeare
decay indecision
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. Allen Ginsberg
decay hard lying offshore oil photograph time trying
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. Edward Burtynsky
decay economy economy-and-economics french issue losing preparing sign society
It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future. Nicolas Sobczak
decay holy-places amulets
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes C. S. Lewis
decay written all-things
Mutability is written upon all things. Antoine Rivarol
decay early national showing silent studies
National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic. Mary Hayes
decay fanaticism fierce interval period transition wild
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism John Calhoun
decay our-love destruction
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... John Donne