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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.
advancement prosperity pondering
There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science. Ali ibn Abi Talib
advancement constitution public-good
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. Alexander Hamilton
advancement should human-life
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. Nathan Deal
advancement standing-alone despotism
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. John Stuart Mill
advancement ambiguity greater
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. Thomas Reid
advancement robots would-be
Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me. Stanley Bing
youth young
Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young. David Rakoff
youth
In [my] youth I was smacked around. Arnold Schwarzenegger
youth
The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life. Dick Clark
youth hold-fast
Hold fast to youth and beauty. Elizabeth Arden
youth tenacity charming
the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions. Agnes Repplier
youth social made
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. Charles Fourier
youth said
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said. Anton Chekhov
youth indignation
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. Chris Evans
youth-of-today effort tables
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly. Dean Koontz