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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.
perfection technique invisible
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible. Alan Chadwick
perfection
I expect perfection from myself. Bryce Harper
perfection perfect doe
Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. Carolina Herrera
perfection looks absurd
It is absurd to look for perfection. Camille Pissarro
perfection institutions collapse
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. C. Northcote Parkinson
perfection wish world
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants. Charles Lyell
perfection progress aviation
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress. Charles Lindbergh
perfection feminist disease
Perfection is a disease of a nation. Beyonce Knowles
perfection world demand
In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing. Edith Schaeffer
evening ruins whole
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening? Beverly Sills
evening news gone
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone. Bernard Goldberg
evening everyday exciting expecting governor interested pleased
We're expecting a very exciting evening with our Governor here. It's not everyday that we have our Governor as our keynote speaker. We're very pleased and very interested in what he has to say. Emilie Mims
evening cows odd-thomas
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded. Dean Koontz
evening
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. Ashley Judd
evening forest hill path silence touched
Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves. William Stafford
evening gown lace late mild restraint since
Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.
evening fast green hill mine shine sun violet
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!
evening natural given
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. Charles Bukowski