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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.
pigeons
When they think of pigeons they think of something wild. Jim Clarke
pigeons facts sometimes
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. Claude Chabrol
pigeons
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it. Alan Alda
pigeons news mouths
Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable. William Shakespeare
pigeons peas wit
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...
pigeons holes comfortable
Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons. Jessye Norman
pigeons flight destination
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. May Sarton
peasant
Having been duke, you don't go be peasant again. Grover Norquist
peasant wear
Wear them with peasant dresses, or tuck them into jeans. Anna Kournikova
peasants cricket ifs
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan
peasants
Basically the French are all peasants. Pablo Picasso
peas-in-a-pod people trying
Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different. Ilka Chase
peasants knows
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman Louis Pasteur
peasants results industry
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal. Wallace Stevens